The United States Supreme Court has held that in order for a confinement condition claim to violate the Eighth Amendment, the prisoner must demonstrate that the complained of condition was a violation of the Eighth Amendment and that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to the unnecessary and wanton infliction of such violative conditions. Wilson v Seiter, US , 111 S Ct 2321 (1991)
The United States Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment contains no proportionality guarantee...
The United States Supreme Court has held that a sentence of life imprisonment without parole imposed...
The Eighth Amendment prohibits, among other things, cruel and unusual punishment. In the prison co...
This article will examine the development of the standard for eighth amendment review used in cases ...
Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.In 1991 the United States Supreme Court revisit...
Confinement under conditions shocking to the conscience of reasonably civilized people-The Supreme C...
Eighth Amendment jurisprudence has resulted in limited scrutiny of solitary confinement despite the ...
The Eighth Amendment pendulum swung back in 1991 when the Supreme Court in Wilson v. Seiter establis...
The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, but its normative force derives chiefly...
In Hudson v. McMillian, the Supreme Court held that use of excessive physical force against an inmat...
Prior to the late 1960s, federal courts took a hands-off approach when inmates in state prisons trie...
The Supreme Court of the United States has held that a mandatory life sentence imposed under a state...
The Due Process Clause prohibits all punishment of pretrial detainees- individuals that are held b...
This literature review examines the practice of juvenile solitary confinement, applies the United St...
Part I of this Article gives background on the origins of the Eighth Amendment doctrine concerning p...
The United States Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment contains no proportionality guarantee...
The United States Supreme Court has held that a sentence of life imprisonment without parole imposed...
The Eighth Amendment prohibits, among other things, cruel and unusual punishment. In the prison co...
This article will examine the development of the standard for eighth amendment review used in cases ...
Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.In 1991 the United States Supreme Court revisit...
Confinement under conditions shocking to the conscience of reasonably civilized people-The Supreme C...
Eighth Amendment jurisprudence has resulted in limited scrutiny of solitary confinement despite the ...
The Eighth Amendment pendulum swung back in 1991 when the Supreme Court in Wilson v. Seiter establis...
The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, but its normative force derives chiefly...
In Hudson v. McMillian, the Supreme Court held that use of excessive physical force against an inmat...
Prior to the late 1960s, federal courts took a hands-off approach when inmates in state prisons trie...
The Supreme Court of the United States has held that a mandatory life sentence imposed under a state...
The Due Process Clause prohibits all punishment of pretrial detainees- individuals that are held b...
This literature review examines the practice of juvenile solitary confinement, applies the United St...
Part I of this Article gives background on the origins of the Eighth Amendment doctrine concerning p...
The United States Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment contains no proportionality guarantee...
The United States Supreme Court has held that a sentence of life imprisonment without parole imposed...
The Eighth Amendment prohibits, among other things, cruel and unusual punishment. In the prison co...