As revealed by female prisoners who describe the untold, terrible truths of what's been occurring to female detainees behind ...

A federal judge last month rejected an incarcerated plaintiff's request for a new civil trial in his constitutional rights ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases Monday over whether sentencing minors to life in prison without a chance for parole constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Marcia Coyle of the ...

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that executing someone with an intellectual disability violates the 8 th Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Later decisions in 2014 and 2016 ...

People experiencing homelessness will no longer be able to pitch their tents in public green spaces in Brockton and Lowell ...

This is cruel and unusual punishment, which ought to be banned under the 8th Amendment to the Constitution. Then, the political class wonders why voter turnout is trending lower and young people are ...

The Idaho Supreme Court held Tuesday night that a second execution attempt of Thomas Creech does not amount to cruel and ...

Failed execution attempts delayed a man's death and questions have arisen over possible violation of double jeopardy ...

A law that imposes fines and jail time on homeless people who camp on Morgantown’s streets will go before city council for ...

Judge Harris saw a patent violation of the Eighth Amendment’s guarantee against “cruel and unusual punishment.” He ordered California to clean up strip cells in keeping with the “primal ...

That decision came over the objections of Justice Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, who said they would have agreed to ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...