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).
Finally, the Eighth Amendment addresses the terms of an individual's imprisonment and punishment, both before and after conviction. The use of bail means that an accused can pay a bond, or insurance, that she will appear in court at a future date and be released from jail in the meantime.