Locked Up: Exploring Prisoner Rights and the Eighth Amendment

Locked Up: Exploring Prisoner Rights and the Eighth Amendment

  1. Social Education
  2. Social Education March/April 2016
  3. Locked Up: Exploring Prisoner Rights and the Eighth Amendment

Authors:

Greg Bognich

Page:77

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Social Education March/April 2016

An examination of the two featured letters, one by a Leavenworth prisoner and the other by his warden, to President Wilson's attorney general, can spark an engaging study of America's criminal justice system and the Eighth Amendment.