Tag Archives: cruel and unusual punishment

The jail turned up the heat in a mentally ill man's cell until his internal body temperature reached 109 and he died gasping for air.

Two top sheriff's department officials were fired after two women were forced to give birth alone in their jail cell.

Her husband told the 911 dispatcher: “She doesn’t need to go to jail. She needs to go to a hospital.”

For speaking out of turn a judge ordered a man to have tape placed over his mouth in the courtroom, to which the officers quickly obliged.