Is there a duty under the Eighth Amendment to protect prisoners from violence at the hands of other prisoners?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Stuckey v. Juarez, Case No. 1:18-cv-01557-SAB (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2019):
Prison officials have a duty under the Eighth Amendment to protect prisoners from violence at the hands of other prisoners as "[b]eing violently assaulted in prison is simply not part of the penalty that criminal offenders pay for their offenses against society." Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 833-34 (1994) (internal citations and quotation marks omitted); see also
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