Growing up Marvel: the wild, tumultuous life of Stan Lee's only child

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Stan Lee called his daughter, JC, his "greatest creation." That belief in her turned out to be both a gift and a burden.

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'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 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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For God, for country, for rain

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Exclusive ICE training documents encourage quick, decisive use of deadly force, say little about de-escalation

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This article was reported in partnership with Type Investigations.

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

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An FCC ruling has cut prison phone bills in half, disrupting the correctional telecommunications industry

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People incarcerated in jails and prisons have to pay per minute to communicate with the outside world.

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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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