The Court’s right flank has criticized Atkins from the day it was decided, and that right flank now controls six seats on the ...

The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change? Today on Throughline's We the ...

The U.S. Constitution famously outlaws "cruel and unusual punishments." But there's another, far more obscure part of the Constitution called the Excessive Fines Clause, which basically says that the ...

We have recently seen the beginning of the Trump administration’s desire to transport a large group of undocumented immigrants from the United States to El Salvador where they will be imprisoned in ...

A camera crew visited an Alabama prison in 2019 to film an event. There was live music, barbecued food, and prayer. By all accounts, it seemed like a joyful day. But one inmate shared a message to the ...

The Michigan Supreme Court will reconsider a 49-year-old murder sentence where, the defendant argues, there was no showing of malice.

FAYETTE COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — A criminal complaint detailed that a man in Fayette County was arrested and charged with criminal abuse following reports of alleged "cruel and unusual punishment." The ...

As the Trump administration rounds up people it alleges to be illegal aliens and gang members, deports them to El Salvador, and pays to imprison them there without convicting them of any crime, ...

The Liberal government should invoke the notwithstanding clause to enforce a mandatory minimum punishment on child ...

Prisoners in the Florida Department of Corrections system are often held under many of the same inhumane conditions present at Alligator Alcatraz. My uncle is one of them. Prisoners in the Florida ...