In the 2011 case of Brown v. Plata, the Supreme Court ______.

A. expanded the definition of cruel and unusual punishment
B. set prisoner rights to basic human needs back by decades
C. clarified the definition of a prisoner as being a "slave of the state"
D. excluded double celling as a form of cruel and unusual punishment


A. expanded the definition of cruel and unusual punishment

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