What is the test for violating the Eighth Amendment by failing to provide adequate medical equipment in a prison?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Mitchell v. Cate, No. 2:11-cv-1240 JAM AC P (E.D. Cal. 2015):
"The Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons, but neither does it permit inhumane ones." Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 832 (1994) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). A prison official violates the Eighth Amendment only when two requirements are met. Id. at 834. "First, the deprivation alleged must be, objectively, sufficiently serious, a prison official's act or omission must result in the denial of the minimal civilized measure of
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