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Jackson v. Bishop
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Jackson v. Bishop, 404 F.2d 571 (8th Cir. 1968)[1] was a case decided in 1968 on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States by then-judge Harry Blackmun. It abolished corporal punishment in the Arkansas prison system.
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit |
Full case name | William King Jackson, et al, v. O. E. Bishop, Superintendent of the Arkansas State Penitentiary |
Decided | December 9, 1968 |
Citation | 404 F.2d 571 (8th Cir. 1968) |
Case history | |
Prior history | Judges Gordon Elmo Young and Oren Harris consolidated three prisoners' actions and granted relief against "[t]he use of any such devices as the crank telephone or teeter board," against "[t]he application of any whipping to the bare skin of prisoners," and restrained the use of the strap "until additional rules and regulations are promulgated with appropriate safeguards." Jackson v. Bishop, 268 F. Supp. 804 (E.D. Ark. 1967). |
Court membership | |
Judges sitting | Martin Donald Van Oosterhout, Harry Blackmun, Robert Van Pelt (D. Neb.) |
Laws applied | |
Eighth Amendment |
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