Georgia Department of Human Resources v. Nash

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• prison officials& abdication of oversight and policymaking responsibility can constitute deliberate indifference when facts indicate tacit authorization of subordinates& misconduct
• abdication of policy-making and oversight responsibilities can reach level of deliberate indifference and result in unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain to prisoners when tacit authorization of subordinates’ misconduct causes constitutional injury
• “Abdication of policy-making and oversight responsibilities can reach the level of deliberate indifference and result in the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain to prisoners when tacit authorization of subordinates’ misconduct causes constitutional injury.”

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