Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Because inmates are in prison to be punished, the Eighth Amendment does not apply to them.
2. The Eighth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.
3. The Fourteenth Amendment has been used to provide due process rights to offenders.
4. Kansas’s Sexually Violent Predator Act is criminal law rather than civil law.
5. The Supreme Court has ruled the use of civil commitment laws against sex offenders to be unconstitutional.


1. False
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False

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