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 Amendment to the United States Constitution states: âExcessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.â This amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing unduly harsh penalties on criminal defendants, either as the price for obtaining pretrial release or as ...