Rueben Q. Carreon v. the State of Texas

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• concluding prisoners have an actionable § 1983 claim relating to a “pervasive risk of harm” under the Eighth Amendment but not for similar risk of property loss under Parratt and Hudson
• “To violate the Eighth Amendment, conditions of confinement must be dangerous, intolerable or shockingly substandard.”
• “A pervasive risk of harm may not ordinarily be shown by pointing to a single incident or isolated incidents, but it . . . may be established by much less than proof of a reign of violence and terror.” (emphasis added) (internal quotation marks omitted)

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