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).
After inmates had gained a vehicle for raising constitutional claims and the Eighth Amendment had been applied to corrections, judges throughout the country began to examine a broad array of prison conditions by asking whether they constituted cruel and unusual punishments under contemporary societal standards.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).