During one of Sergeant Hernandez's daytime shifts, an inmate playing basketball in the yard collapses. The officers see him collapse and do not approach him. After 15 minutes the inmate gets up and complains to an officer that he has severe abdominal cramping and that he is very light-headed. Sergeant Hernandez makes the decision to deny the inmate's request for medical care. When the inmate
returns to his cell, he collapses again, goes into cardiac arrest, and dies within 5 minutes. Which Supreme Court case ruled that it is a violation of an inmate's Eighth Amendment rights to deliberately fail to provide medical care?
a. Hudson v. McMillan
b. Estelle v. Gamble
c. Wilson v. Seiter
d. Whitley v. Albers
b
You might also like to view...
Skimmers are pager-sized data collection devices that cost roughly $300 and are placed in locations where they can observe victims identify themselves and use credit cards or write checks and/or punch in their long-distance calling card numbers.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The difference between the ratio level and interval level of measurement is which of the following?
A. Ratio-level scales have meaningful zero points that represent the absence of a given characteristic, but interval-level scales do not. B. Ratio-level scales are quantitative while interval-level scales are qualitative. C. The ratio-level has equal and know distances between adjacent points while interval level does not. D. Interval-level scales have a true zero point, but ratio-level scales do not.
in WOF cases did the Texas court hold that a number of criteria had to be followed by the state in order to ensure proper treatment of confined juveniles?
What will be an ideal response?
The ability of communities to regulate the behavior of their residents through the influence of community institutions, such as the family and school, is called_____
a. Social disorganization b. Collective efficacy c. Group cohesiveness d. Innovation