Orrin S. Reed v. Daniel McBride

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• noting courts look at the amount and duration of a deprivation
• repeated deprivations of food and medication for three to five days at a time could not be considered isolated examples of neglect
• when inmate complained about severe deprivations but was ignored, he established a “prototypical case of deliberate indifference.”
• when inmate complained about severe deprivations but was ignored, he established a “prototypical case of deliberate indifference.”
• where inmate complained about severe deprivations but was ignored, he established a “prototypical case of deliberate indifference.”
• “[A] prison official’s knowledge of prison conditions learned from an inmate’s communication can . . . require the officer to exercise his authority and to take the needed action to investigate, and if necessary, to rectify the offending condition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).