Opinion ID: 642
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Maintenance-Supervisor Parsons

Text: Regarding maintenance-supervisor Parsons, we find that Williams has failed to allege a constitutional violation; Williams alleges nothing more than simple negligence. The claim against Parsons is in the nature of a deliberate-indifference claim, and such a claim requires more than a showing of simple or even gross negligence. See Krout v. Goemmer, 583 F.3d 557, 567 (8th Cir.2009) (Even if an official acts unreasonably in failing to take particular measures to improve conditions at a jail facility, for example, `reasonableness is a negligence standard,' and `negligence cannot give rise' to a deliberate indifference claim.) (quoting Crow v. Montgomery, 403 F.3d 598, 602 (8th Cir.2005)). Accordingly, even if we were to assume that an inmate or former inmate could present a viable deliberate indifference claim against a maintenance supervisor, Williams has not alleged facts that might support such a claim in this case.