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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 02:54:19+00:00

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BRIAN MURPHY and MIKE JEWEL, Defendants.
This matter is a civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff, a prisoner at the Allen County, Kansas, Jail, proceeds pro se and forma pauperis.
Plaintiff presents three grounds for relief: (1) that he told jail guards, the sheriff, and the jail administrator that he was in pain and needed to go to the hospital; (2) that his legal mail is being opened outside his presence; and (3) that he has told “all guards” that he needs to see mental health providers. The defendants named in the complaint are Sheriff Brian Murphy and Mike Jewel, the jail administrator.
Two of plaintiff's claims assert that he has been denied adequate medical attention. In an action under Section 1983, the Court must consider whether a deprivation alleged by a prisoner violates the Constitution. A prisoner is entitled to humane conditions of confinement, including adequate medical care. Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 832 (1994)(quoting Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517, 526-27 (1984)). “[D]eliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners” violates the Eighth Amendment. Estelle v. Gamble, 419 U.S. 97, 104-05 (1976). The deliberate indifference standard has two components; first, the objective component requires that a condition must be “sufficiently serious” and second, the subjective component requires that the prison officials acted with a sufficiently culpable state of mind. Self v. Crum, 439 F.3d 1227, 1230-31 (10th Cir. 2006).
A negligent failure to provide adequate medical care does not violate a prisoner's constitutional rights, even if that failure rises to medical malpractice. Perkins v. Kan. Dept. of Corrections, 165 F.3d 803, 811 (10th Cir. 1999). Finally, a prisoner's disagreement with a diagnosis or the course of medical care offered is not, in itself, a constitutional violation. Id.

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