'Deliberate indifference': The Supreme Court standard that requires prisoners to prove mindset to win Eighth Amendment claims

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James Vandevender touching a scar on his head.
James Vandevender sued Minnesota prison officials in 2018 after another prisoner attacked him using a wooden post from a prison shop. He lost his case.

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The PLRA was meant to end frivolous prisoner lawsuits. It's stymied most legitimate Eighth Amendment cases too.

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Juanita Ornelas wearing a white prison uniform in the yard at the William G. McConnell Unit.
Juanita Ornelas, a Texas prisoner, filed a lawsuit in 2018 claiming the state had failed to protect her from repeated sexual assaults; she presents as masculine in prison for safety reasons. A federal judge dismissed the case.

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How Business Insider investigated the state of the Eighth Amendment

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The William G. McConnell Unit in Beeville, Texas.

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The Eighth Amendment is meant to protect against prisoner abuse. Less than 1% of cases succeed.

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An illustration of a prison interior, with illuminated cell doors on two levels flanking a central area with long tables.

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In 1870, a Black woman sued her enslaver for reparations and won

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A man holds a sign as the Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input on reparations at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

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Who killed Cedar the goat?

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A goat in between a fork and knife
A 9-year-old girl tried to save her goat from the slaughterhouse. What happened next might change the way you think about meat.

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Cedar the goat was sold at auction, destined for the dinner table. But his owner, a 9-year-old girl, loved him too much for that. She decided, instead, to save him.

AMC apologized after theater employees had a civil rights leader removed from a screening of 'The Color Purple' by police for using a disability chair

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William Barber, Founding Director, Repairers Of The Breach & The Yale Center For Public Theology And Public Policy speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.

A Black student was suspended over his locs hairstyle. Now his family is threatening to call Child Protective Services on the Texas school.

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Dr. Candice Matthews, Darryl George, and Darresha George sitting next to each other
Dr. Candice Matthews, Darryl George, and Darresha George.

Dr. Candice Matthews

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