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Featured Criminal Justice Organizations and Associations

American Correctional Association
For more than 152 years, the American Correctional Association has championed the cause of corrections and correctional effectiveness. Founded in 1870 as the National Prison Association, ACA is the oldest association developed specifically for practitioners in the correctional profession. During the first organizational meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, the assembly elected then-Ohio Governor and future President Rutherford B. Hayes as the first President of the Association.
Rehabilitation Through the Arts
RTA helps people in prison develop critical life skills through the arts, modeling an approach to the justice system based on human dignity rather than punishment.
Center for Justice Innovation
The work of the Center for Justice Innovation (formerly Center for Court Innovation) touches all stages of the justice system, from arrest through reintegration into the community. But our work goes further by seeking to reduce the need for justice system involvement in the first place. Our primary long-term goal is to identify and resolve as early as possible the challenges that bring people into the criminal and civil legal systems.

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Eighth Amendment Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Eighth Amendment Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Amdt8.4.2 Evolving or Fixed Standard of Cruel and Unusual Punishment
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Supreme Court began to consider whether the standard for “cruel and unusual punishments” was fixed at the time of the framing of the Constitution or whether it was an evolving standard.
Amdt8.1 Overview of Eighth Amendment, Cruel and Unusual Punishment
The Eighth Amendment prohibits certain types of punishment: excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments.
FIRST PRINCIPLES: Constitutional Matters: Cruel and Unusual Punishmen
List of case involving Cruel and Unusual Punishment
The Original Meaning of “Due Process of Law” in the Fifth Amendment
The modern understanding of the Fifth Amendment Due Process of Law Clause is dramatically different from the original meaning of the constitutional text.

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