BI analyzed nearly 1,500 cases to obtain data on prisoner litigation. We found that constitutional protections have been ...

The Eighth Amendment is meant to protect prisoners against abuse. BI has found that Supreme Court decisions and federal laws ...

The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution reads as follows: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” ...

The Eighth Amendment, which has a vague ban on “cruel and unusual punishments,” is at the center of the Hamm case because, for decades, the Court has held this amendment forbids executions of ...

In recent years, Eighth Amendment doctrine has been “so stripped down” that “even egregious, morally indefensible treatment can easily pass constitutional muster,” Sharon Dolovich, a law ...

The Eighth Amendment, which bars "cruel and unusual punishments," was intended by the founders as a bulwark against prisoner abuse. Over the years it came to mean any treatment that "shocked the ...