The following excerpt is from Grant v. Cate, No. 2: 14-cv-1867 MCE KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2016):
To establish that a lockdown created conditions of confinement that violated the Eighth Amendment, the prisoner must establish first, that he was deprived of the "minimal civilized measure of life's necessities," and second, that defendants acted with deliberate indifference to his health and safety. Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 834-35 (1994).
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