Is routine discomfort in the prison setting inadequate to satisfy the objective prong of the Eighth Amendment inquiry?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Moody v. Finander, CASE NO. 09-CV-0892-LAB (BGS) (S.D. Cal. 2011):

Although the "routine discomfort inherent in the prison setting" is inadequate to satisfy the objective prong of an Eighth Amendment inquiry, see Johnson v. Lewis, 217 F.3d 726, 731 (9th Cir. 1999), the objective component is generally satisfied so long as the prisoner alleges facts to show that his medical need is sufficiently "serious" such that the "failure to treat [that] condition could result in further significant injury or the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain." Clement, 298 F.3d at 904 (quotations omitted).

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