The Crime of Cruel and Unusual Punishment in the US

Published December 21, 2013

The Crime of Cruel and Unusual Punishment in the US
In 1987 Amnesty International issued a report on Marion where it found that the prison violated every part of the UN's Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Freedom Archives 2013). The “ideological brainchild” of a professor at MITs …
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The Scales of Justice
James Boreham, 20, of Lindsay Drive, Abingdon, admitted possession of cocaine, a Class A drug, in Abingdon on August 24. … Community order made with a drug rehabilitation and supervision requirements. … on July 27, stole alcohol worth £374.34 from …
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