It's extremely rare for prisoners to win lawsuits on Eighth Amendment claims.
Most civil suits settle in the outside world. But among prisoner Eighth Amendment lawsuits, only 14% settle, and less than 1% win in court.
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Federal courts have allowed prisons and private medical contractors to neglect prisoner health
Federal courts have rarely upheld claims of medical neglect in US prisons, even when healthcare providers failed to diagnose cancer or treat heart disease.
Prison guards' use of force is rarely deemed excessive by federal courts and judges, analysis shows
Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme violence hits that bar.
'Deliberate indifference': The Supreme Court standard that requires prisoners to prove mindset to win Eighth Amendment claims
Farmer v. Brennan was a landmark case for trans rights. It also cemented a standard that makes it almost impossible to win Eighth Amendment claims.
The PLRA was meant to end frivolous prisoner lawsuits. It's stymied most legitimate Eighth Amendment cases too.
The Clinton-era law created a separate, unequal justice system for prisoners, placing obstacles in their way before civil rights claims can be heard court.
The Eighth Amendment is meant to protect against prisoner abuse. Less than 1% of cases succeed.
The Eighth Amendment is meant to protect prisoners against abuse. BI has found that Supreme Court decisions and federal laws have obliterated it.
How Business Insider investigated the state of the Eighth Amendment
BI analyzed nearly 1,500 cases to obtain data on prisoner litigation. We found that constitutional protections have been dramatically weakened.
The Supreme Court just made it easier for governments to remove unhoused people from public spaces
Homelessness in the US hit a record high last year, fueled in large part by the nation's severe shortage of housing.
Can Trump still run for president after being convicted? Yes.
The Constitution is clear about what qualifies a person to run for president. Donald Trump's conviction can't prevent him from becoming president.
Texas senator says the plan to give poor residents a $500 guaranteed basic income is unconstitutional
Harris County, which includes Houston, is offering $500 guaranteed basic income payments to the area's poorest residents.
Adam Kinzinger says Trump will 'interview 100 candidates' for attorney general and pick a person who'll disregard the Constitution should the ex-president win in 2024
Kinzinger said if Trump is reelected he would select an attorney general willing to disregard the Constitution. Trump clashed with both of his attorneys general, Jeff Sessions and William Barr.
Populist senator JD Vance supports an effort to make it harder to change Ohio's constitution — even though it's backed by a GOP Illinois billionaire — because he says it protects voters from 'out of state interests' ahead of abortion referendum
A self-styled populist, Vance says Issue One would protect Ohio voters from out of state interests, even as an Illinois billionaire funds the effort.
GOP congressman who said last year that Trump 'can't be trusted' and is 'not fit to lead' just endorsed his 2024 campaign
Rep. John James denounced Trump as recently as December, when the former president seemingly called for the termination of the US Constitution.
Clarence Thomas isn't happy the Supreme Court went out of its way to shoot down a fringe right-wing elections theory
Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court shouldn't have taken up the case on the fringe "independent state legislature" election theory to begin with.
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon speaks out two months after his ouster from the network: 'I'm not a perfect person. No one is.'
"In order to fulfill the promise of the Constitution, we have to stand up for what is right," Lemon told ABC24 Memphis in a recent interview.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy backs push by MTG and Elise Stefanik to 'expunge' the impeachments of Trump
McCarthy said that the 2019 impeachment was "was not based on true facts" while adding that the 2021 vote was taken "on the basis of no due process."
Elon Musk says federal probe of Twitter is a 'weaponization of a government agency and a 'serious attack on the Constitution'
Elon Musk criticized the FTC for asking Twitter to "identify all journalists" who can access its internal systems, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Trump won't be able to terminate the US Constitution but a Republican-led effort to rewrite it continues
Both sides of the long-running debate over a potential Article V Constitutional convention are ready to square off again in 2023.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dominated oral arguments and challenged conservative thinking in her first months on the Supreme Court, observers say
"We haven't really seen somebody who, out of the gates, is this engaged," one Supreme Court scholar said.
5 times Mitch McConnell publicly criticized Trump since the ex-president left the White House
McConnell and Trump haven't spoken in two years. But the top Senate Republican has been careful about when he speaks out against the former president.