Does a jailor have excessive force against an inmate under the Fourteenth Amendment?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Patterson v. Kern Cnty. Sheriff's Office, CASE NO. 1:12-CV-0132-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2012):

F.3d 318, 330 (3d Cir. 2009) (no excessive force against inmate when guards deny inmate's request for pain medication, and administer a single shot of pepper spray, as a proportionate response when inmate becomes agitated and refuses to obey orders); see also Fennell v. Gilstrap, 559 F.3d 1212, 1217, (11th Cir. 2009) (finding a jailor's kick to pretrial detainee's face, resulting in fractures, not to be excessive force under the Fourteenth Amendment where inmate was struggling with other officers and had not yet been secured, and officers immediately offered medical care, the court there noting "use of force does not 'shock the conscience' if it is applied in 'a good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline.'")

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