The Justice Department has just released a scathing 96-page report accusing the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, GA of engaging ...

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

People are blasting a Canadian shopping mall for playing the song "Baby Shark" on loop to discourage homeless loitering, ...

"In many ways, this mistreatment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment," the former producer's spokesperson tells TheWrap ...

Jack Crowley was dropped to the bench for the Wallabies clash, but that is not what surprised Ireland great Shane Horgan ...

The New Hampshire Supreme Court is being asked to weigh in on the prison sentence of a teen killer. More than two decades ago ...

This case is the second in recent years — and the third since the late 19th century — that asks the Supreme Court to overturn ...

The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that a second attempt to execute an Idaho death row inmate would not violate his Eighth ...

nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. There is little in the historical record to suggest that the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause was the subject of much discussion during the drafting ...

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 ...