What is the state of the law on the Eighth Amendment and conditions of confinement?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Parthemore v. Knipp, No. CIV S-11-1829 EFB P (E.D. Cal. 2012):
Plaintiff is hereby informed that the Eighth Amendment protects prisoners from inhumane methods of punishment and from inhumane conditions of confinement. Morgan v. Morgensen, 465 F.3d 1041, 1045 (9th Cir. 2006). Extreme deprivations are required to make out a conditions of confinement claim, and only those deprivations denying the minimal civilized
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