Army ROTC scholarships pay up to full tuition and fees, $1,200 per year for books, and a monthly stipend. Widener University also provides a generous room and board incentive to scholarship winners.
Two key cases affecting corrections coincide with the revitalization of the Eighth Amendment attendant to controversies about the death penalty, three strikes sentences for a nonviolent third offense, and life sentences for first-time minor drug offenders.n the second case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit found an Eighth Amendment violation in Michigan's policy of terminating inmate visits as a means of punishing substance abuse violations (Bazetta v. McGinnis, 2002).
US constitutional amendment that prohibits excessive bail, ...excessive fines (and) cruel and unusual punishment.... The actual text of the Amendment is: Eighth Amendment - Further Guarantees in Criminal Cases: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. The amendment has been the subject of many cases brought before the Supreme Court of the United States, perhaps none more important than the 1958 case Trop v Dulles, for which the formal citation is 356 US 86.