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

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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, 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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For God, for country, for rain

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The professor made porn. His firing may shape the future of free speech.

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"If they can do this to me, they could do it to any tenured professor," says Joe Gow. "Academia is not a law firm or a bank or an insurance company. We're in the truth business."

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'Trump is going to win': Latino voters explain why they're moving to the right

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A community gathering center in Starr County, where support for Donald Trump nearly quadrupled in 2020.

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The plot to topple Putin

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Ever since the invasion of Ukraine, a loose and sometimes fractious cohort of Russian exiles — many of them based in Warsaw — has come to believe that Russia can be liberated only through violence and sabotage.

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Business Insider seeks tips regarding potential abuses by corporate landlords across the US

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has kept its use of deadly force secret. Until now.

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This article was reported in partnership with The Trace and Type Investigations.

Locked out

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Alfred Perry got word on Labor Day weekend. He'd just thrown one of his signature cookouts in the courtyard of his apartment complex in Las Vegas.

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