In a 6-to-3 decision that should have been slam-bang unanimous, the Supreme Court ruled today in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that a city does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases Monday over whether sentencing ... are too painful and violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.

How a Clinton-era law, the PLRA, hollowed out the Eighth Amendment. Nearly three years ... from 2018 to 2022 citing the relevant Supreme Court cases and standards. Some were filed by former ...

The Supreme Court turned away one gun rights case on Monday as it gets ready to decide if it will hear a Minnesota case on a ...

We analyzed nearly 1,500 cases to obtain data on prisoner litigation. We found that constitutional protections have been dramatically weakened. In the 1980s and 1990s, a series of Supreme Court ...