Ray Thomas Woodall, Jr. v. Charles A. Foti, Jr.

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• holding that an allegation that prisoner “had been denied medically necessary psychiatric care” stated a claim under the Eighth Amendment
• holding that one factor a court should consider in deciding whether psychiatric care for a prisoner is medically necessary is “the extent to which the prisoner presents a risk of danger to himself or other inmates”
• Sheriff refused to provide inmate with specialized psychotherapy as recommended by prison psychiatrist

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).