What is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment?
The following excerpt is from Fisher v. Dir. CDCR, Case No.: 1:14-cv-00901-BAM PC (E.D. Cal. 2015):
To constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment, prison conditions must involve "the wanton and unnecessary infliction of pain." Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 347, 101 S.Ct. 2392, 2399, 69 L.Ed.2d 59 (1981). The inquiry as to whether a prison official's use of force constitutes cruel and unusual punishment is "whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose
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