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 ...

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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 ...

A solitary confinement cell known all as “the bing,” at New York’s Rikers Island jail on Jan. 28, 2016. (Bebeto Matthews/AP) (CN) — Prisoners in a New Mexico penitentiary filed a class action on ...

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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 ...

The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors... We the People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment The ...