Purcell Ex Rel. Estate of Morgan v. Toombs County, GA

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “conditions evidenced by the record here were not sufficiently grave to violate the Constitution”
• holding that ‘‘an excessive risk of inmate-on-inmate violence at a jail creates a substantial risk of serious harm.”
• explaining that a court “must not allow the advantage of hindsight to determine whether” an Eight Amendment violation occurred
• explaining that a prisoner has an Eighth Amendment right to be reasonably protected from “constant threat of violence” by his fellow inmates
• explaining that the Eighth Amendment applies to convicted inmates, while pretrial detainees’ constitutional rights arise from the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause
• noting that the occasional injury is not enough to show an excessive risk to safety

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).