As climate change causes more heat waves and days over 100 degrees, perhaps no population will suffer as much as those incarcerated in prison, where few inmates are provided with air conditioning.
Defining Cruel and Unusual Punishment Under the Constitution’s 8th Amendment
Most people are familiar with the fact that the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution prohibits the use of cruel and unusual punishment and, in fact, so do most state constitutions. But while we can all generally agree that the Eighth Amendment says that prisoners shouldn’t spend their days being whipped and tortured, defining […]
