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).
The idea behind this as with others in the Bill of Rights dealing with justice issues was to keep the power in the hands of the people and not in the government, which could be corrupted. The Eighth Amendment has three areas or clauses: Bail, Fines, and Punishment- although a fine is a punishment. Our founders had experienced English law and incorporated the basics of the Eighth Amendment from the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Parts of the amendment date back to the Magna Carta in 1215.