The following excerpt is from Sandon v. Lewis, 139 F.3d 907 (9th Cir. 1997):
To sustain an Eighth Amendment claim, Sandon must prove a denial of "the minimum civilized measure of life's necessities, occurring through deliberate indifference by prison personnel or officers." See Keenan v. Hall, 83 F.3d 1083, 1089 (9th Cir.1996) (internal citations omitted).
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