The following excerpt is from Dorrough v. Hubbard, CASE NO. 1:11-CV-00212-DLB PC (E.D. Cal. 2011):
Plaintiff fails to state an Eighth Amendment claim regarding lack of vocational and educational programs. "Idleness and the lack of programs are not Eighth Amendment violations. The lack of these programs simply does not amount to the infliction of pain." Hoptowit v. Ray, 682 F.2d 1237, 1254-55 (9th Cir. 1982).
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