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).
The Eighth Amendmentâs prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment also protects your right to safe and humane conditions in prison. You can challenge prison conditions that are unsafe or that deprive you of a âbasic human need,â such as shelter, food, exercise, clothing, sanitation, and hygiene.ou can bring a claim for sexual assault even if it does not result in physical injury. One good case to read on this issue is Schwenk v. Hartford, 204 F.3d 1187, 1196-97 (9th Cir. 2000). Also, rape and sexual assault need not be committed by a prison guard in order to violate the Eighth Amendment.