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May 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2025, page 12
In a report published on December 19, 2024, Business Insider found just 1% of prisoners succeeded in claims against prison officials for violating the Eighth Amendment ban on “cruel and unusual” punishment.
To arrive at that figure, researchers combed through 1,488 prisoner complaints filed from 2018 to 2022, including all …