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).
Answer by JB28 (285). The eighth amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishments. This helps ensure that people are punished in proportion to the crime committed.The punishment must fit the crime. add a comment.nswer by tamarawilhite (17883). The eighth amendment of the United States Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishments. This originally included quartering, guillotine, suffocation, and cruel acts that caused a victim to bleed to death.