How to examine challenges to prison conditions based on the Eighth Amendment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Franklin v. State of Or., State Welfare Division, 662 F.2d 1337 (9th Cir. 1981):
12 For a discussion of how to examine challenges of prison conditions based on the Eighth Amendment, see Rhodes v. Chapman, --- U.S. ----, 101 S.Ct. 2392, 69 L.Ed.2d 59 (1981); Wright v. Rushen, 642 F.2d 1129 (9th Cir. 1981).
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