What is the test for a court to determine whether a prisoner has a right to exercise his constitutional right to bodily harm?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Crime Justice & Am., Inc. v. Honea, 876 F.3d 966 (9th Cir. 2017):

prison inmates." 482 U.S. at 90, 107 S.Ct. 2254. "Where other avenues remain available for the exercise of the asserted right, courts should be particularly conscious of the measure of judicial deference owed to corrections officials ... in gauging the validity of the regulation." Id. (internal citation and quotation marks omitted). These alternatives "need not be ideal, however; they need only be available." Overton v. Bazzetta , 539 U.S. 126, 135, 123 S.Ct. 2162, 156 L.Ed.2d 162 (2003).

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