The following excerpt is from Castro v. Cnty. of L.A., 833 F.3d 1060 (9th Cir. 2016):
not yet convicted, under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. See Bell v. Wolfish , 441 U.S. 520, 535, 99 S.Ct. 1861, 60 L.Ed.2d 447 (1979) (holding that, under the Due Process Clause, a detainee may not be punished prior to conviction). Under both clauses, the plaintiff must show that the prison officials acted with deliberate indifference.
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