Define cruel and unusual punishment of the Eighth Amendment as it relates to prison conditions
What will be an ideal response?
• There is no bright-line definition; short of torture or physical punishment, it is difficult for a court or correctional administrators to determine what level of restrictions in a prison constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment." However, the following standards provide some guidance: 1) if people of reasonable sensitivity found the treatment shocking or disgusting, it would also be considered cruel and unusual; 2) conditions and practices which display punitive intent are forbidden; and 3) a criminal sentence must be proportionate to the crime for which the defendant has been convicted.
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