John Doe v. George C. Welborn, Warden, Austin Randolph, Unit Manager, and M. Mifflin

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• psychological injury must be extreme to constitute an injury in a conditions-of- confinement claim
• “An allegation that prison officials exposed a prisoner to a risk of violence at the hands of other inmates does not implicate the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause.” (quotations and citation omitted)
• plaintiff could not satisfy injury element because he did not provide evidence of “physical harm nor the kind of extreme and officially sanctioned psychological harm that might support a claim for damages under the Eighth Amendment”
• plaintiff could not satisfy injury element because he did not provide evidence of “physical harm nor the kind of extreme and officially sanctioned psychological harm that might support a claim for damages under the Eighth Amendment”
• “An allegation that prison officials exposed a prisoner to a risk of violence at the hands of other inmates does not implicate the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “An allegation that prison officials exposed a prisoner to a risk of violence at the hands of other inmates does not implicate the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).