Revels v. Vincenz

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “the Eighth Amendment does not apply” to a committed psychiatric patient because he “is confined for treatment rather than incarcerated for the purpose of punishment following conviction”
• concluding the Eighth Amendment does not apply to patients who are involuntarily committed because the purpose of their confinement is treatment, not punishment after a conviction
• explaining that to “establish deliberate indifference, the plaintiff must show the defendant was substantially aware of but disregarded an excessive risk to inmate health or safety”
• explaining that to demonstrate an Eighth Amendment violation, a prisoner must prove that the defendant’s conduct deprived “the plaintiff of the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities”
• explaining that to demonstrate an Eighth Amendment violation, a prisoner must prove that the defendant’s conduct deprived “the plaintiff of the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities”
• noting that “an involuntarily committed psychiatric patient is confined for treatment rather than incarcerated for the purpose of punishment following conviction” and, therefore, the Eighth Amendment did not apply

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).