Cruel and Unusual Punishment has four primary …show more content…
The Supreme Court addressed this in Hudson v McMillian where an inmate was beaten by prison guard. The main reason why this was an issue in that case was that the prisoner had an injury but the court did not see that he was hurt .The outcome of the Hudson v McMillian was that Hudson, who was an inmate, had minor bruises from the prison guard who beat the heck out of the inmate. These two testified in court where the prisoner was not guilty when he should have been guilty knowing that the prison guard beat him up while he was handcuff. In Wilson v Seiter in 1991, the court denied another prisoner inmate who was subjected to rat-infested and swarming conditions at Ohio prison. The court over ruled this case by saying that the inmates are using general condition of their area to assert their eight