Rodriguez v. SECRETARY FOR DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

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• concluding that members of the plaintiff’s former prison gang threatening to kill him upon his release into the general prison population was sufficient to put defendants on notice of a substantial risk of serious harm to the plaintiff
• concluding that members of the plaintiff’s former prison gang threatening to kill him upon his release into the general prison population was sufficient to put defendants on notice of a substantial risk of serious harm to the plaintiff
• finding that officer’s violating “established protocol for handling an inmate’s life-threatening security concerns” supported Eighth Amendment liability
• “Because it is not necessary for us to do so, we decline to address the objective component of Rodriguez's Eighth Amendment claim.”
• “An official responds to a known risk in an objectively unreasonable manner if he knew of ways to reduce the harm but knowingly declined to act or if he knew of ways to reduce the harm but recklessly declined to act.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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