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The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change? Today on Throughline's We the ...

A federal appeals court has found that prisoner health care at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola met standards set by the Eighth Amendment,.