The Hollowing of the Eighth Amendment

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In 1991 an inmate named Dee Farmer sued prison officials at the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, for violating the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Penitentiary staff had placed Farmer, a Black transgender woman incarcerated for credit card fraud, with male prisoners, one of whom had beaten and raped her. Representing […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/06/18/the-hollowing-of-the-eighth-amendment/

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