Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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• suggesting that providing- diabetic inmates with only one insulin injection per day and less-than-daily blood sugar monitoring, when they needed more, can constitute deliberate indifference
• stating that a plaintiff must demonstrate “acts or omissions by prison officials that indicate deliberate indifference”
• reasoning that deliberate indifference may be found where a prison official “persists in a particular course of treatment in the face of resultant pain and risk of permanent injury” (internal quotations omitted)
• noting that claims of medical malpractice or negligence do not constitute deliberate indifference
• noting that the Third Circuit has found deliberate indifference in such circumstances
• noting “it is possible that conduct that violates the Eighth Amendment rights of the unstable [diabetic] plaintiffs may not violate the constitutional rights of the stable [diabetic] plaintiffs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).