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Rhodes Vs. Chapman

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 15, 1981

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  3. Estelle Vs. Gamble US Supreme Court · Nov 30, 1976
  4. Trop Vs. Dulles US Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1958
  5. Rummel Vs. Estelle US Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1980
  6. Coker Vs. Georgia US Supreme Court · Jun 29, 1977
  7. Bell Vs. Wolfish US Supreme Court · May 14, 1979
  8. Procunier Vs. Martinez US Supreme Court · Apr 29, 1974
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  10. Cruz Vs. Beto US Supreme Court · Mar 20, 1972
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  12. U.S. 337 (1981) U.S. Supreme Court Rhodes v. Chapman
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  13. U.S. 337 (1981) Rhodes v. Chapman
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  14. Amendment, which is applicable to the States through Page 452 U. S. 345 the Fourteenth Amendment, Robinson v. California
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  15. Ingraham v. Wright
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  16. Bell v. Wolfish
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  17. supra, at 428 U. S. 173 , or are grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime, Coker v. Georgia
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  18. Weems v. United
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  19. of judges. Rummel v. Estelle
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  20. of a given punishment. Coker v. Georgia
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  21. supra, at 445 U. S. 274 -275, quoting Coker v. Georgia
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  22. and the sentencing by juries. Gregg v. Georgia
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  23. supra, at 433 U. S. 593 -596. Our conclusion in Estelle v. Gamble
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  24. of pain, nor may they be grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime warranting imprisonment. In Estelle v. Gamble
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  25. serious cases, it can result in pain without any penological purpose. 429 U.S. at 429 U. S. 103 . In Hutto v. Finney
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  26. Cruz v. Beto
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  27. prisons. Tr. of Oral Arg. 5-6. Thus, petitioners have an interest in resuming double celling at SOCF. See Bell v. Wolfish
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  28. In Hutto v. Finney
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  29. in two Arkansas prisons constituted cruel and unusual punishment. Id. at 437 U. S. 685 . In Ingraham v. Wright
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  30. Id. at 430 U. S. 669 , quoting Ingraham v. Wright
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  31. The Eighth Amendment also imposes a substantive limit on what can be made criminal and punished as such. Robinson v. California
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  32. experts as to desirable prison conditions suffice to establish contemporary standards of decency. As we noted in Bell v. Wolfish
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  33. a prison's internal security is peculiarly a matter normally left to the discretion of prison administrators. See Bell v. Wolfish
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  34. Jones v. North
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  35. We have sketched before the magnitude of the problems of prison administration. Procunier v. Martinez
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  36. supra, at 416 U. S. 404 -405 (footnote omitted). See also Wolff v. McDonnell
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  37. court decisions holding prison conditions to be violative of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments include Ramos v. Lamm
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  38. Williams v. Edwards
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  39. Gates v. Collier
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  40. Pugh v. Locke
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  41. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail v. Eisenstadt
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  42. For example, in Pugh v. Locke
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  43. Unfortunately, the Alabama example is neither abberational nor anachronistic. Last year, in Ramos v. Lamm
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  44. ante at 452 U. S. 351 , n. 16, quoting Procunier v. Martinez
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  45. U.S. Supreme Court Rhodes v. Chapman
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  46. the Fourteenth Amendment, Robinson v. California
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  47. Ingraham v. Wright
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  48. In Estelle v. Gamble
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  49. SOCF. See Bell v. Wolfish
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  50. In Ingraham v. Wright
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