Klebanowski v. Sheahan

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• holding that statements by an inmate that he was in fear for his safety “are insufficient to alert officers to a specific threat”
• concluding that subjective awareness of a risk cannot be inferred if “[jail] officers knew only that [plaintiff] had been involved in an altercation with three other inmates, and that he wanted a transfer because he feared for his life”
• explaining that an official capacity claim must establish the alleged constitutional violation was a result of custom or policy
• indicating that a failure to protect claim requires more than “general allegations of fear or the need to be removed”
• deciding officers who knew only that the prisoner was “afraid for his life” and had been beaten could not be aware of substantial risk
• noting that prisoner must communicate to prison officials a specific, future threat of substantial harm to his health or safety in order to state a claim for failure to protect

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).