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

The second category, which arguably reflects the understanding that prevailed in America before the drafting of the Eighth Amendment ... on the Constitution of the United States (1833) believed ...

At the time of the drafting of the Eighth Amendment ... and the provision in the amendment induced no debate on the floor of Congress. In United States v. Bajakajian (1998), the Supreme Court ...

Greenville Democratic leader advocates for President Biden to act to make Equal Rights Amendment part of the Constitution to ...

Others say they were assaulted by officers themselves. The Eighth Amendment, which bars "cruel and unusual punishments," was intended by the founders as a bulwark against prisoner abuse. Over the ...

In some states, such as Alaska, officials can hand down disciplinary action if they believe a prisoner has abused the grievance system. Again and again, a law meant to end frivolous prisoner lawsuits ...

Its goal is to prohibit the abuses of England's notorious Star Chamber—a court under King Henry VIII where political prisoners could be tried in secret. With the Sixth Amendment, the accused has ...

Saying the “Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons,” Florida corrections officials want a federal judge to toss ...