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

Illinois inmates defeated in part an attempt by state officials to win summary judgment on their Eighth Amendment-based class ...

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

the Supreme Court ruled that inmates on death row could make last-minute claims that the chemicals in lethal injections are too painful and violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.

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.

Together, they changed the legal landscape of the Eighth Amendment — the foundational constitutional protection against "cruel and unusual punishments." Heavy criticism soon followed — from ...

The school district's attorney Ransom A. Ellis III, of Ellis Ellis Hammons & Johnson in Springfield, MO., pushed back on the ...

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued decree no 319 of 2024 endorsing the eighth amendment of an assistance agreement between ...

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued decree no 319 of 2024 endorsing the eighth amendment of an assistance agreement between Egypt and the US concerning the Egyptian-US higher education initiative.