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  2. Corporal punishment, restraint and seclusion as discipline ...

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    Restraint, a practice that reduces students’ ability to move, and seclusion, which involuntarily places children in isolation, can now only be used if a student or staff member is in imminent ...

  3. Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The "excessiveness" of a punishment can be measured by two different aspects, which are independent of each other. The first aspect is whether the punishment involves the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain. The second aspect is that the punishment must not be grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime. [36] [37] In Miller v.

  4. Seclusion and restraint practices in the U.S. education system

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    Seclusion and restraint are often misused in both public and private schools causing severe injury and trauma for students. restraint and seclusion are often used as punishment for minor behavioral problems. [3] [4] these issues have caused people to call the practices a human rights issue, disabled rights issue, and civil rights issue. There ...

  5. Discipline - Wikipedia

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    Discipline is the self-control that is gained by requiring that rules or orders be obeyed, and the ability to keep working at something that is difficult. [1] Disciplinarians believe that such self-control is of the utmost importance and enforce a set of rules that aim to develop such behavior.

  6. House panel says child restraint reform not ready for action

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    The House Children and Family Law Committee voted, 14-0, to recommend the measure (HB 1269) go to interim study which, if accepted, would require the issue start all over as ... House panel says ...

  7. False imprisonment - Wikipedia

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    False imprisonment does not require a literal prison, but a restriction of the claimant's freedom of movement (complete restraint). According to the Termes de la Ley , 'imprisonment is the restraint of a man's liberty, whether it be in the open field, or in the stocks, or in the cage in the streets or in a man's own house, as well as in the ...

  8. Furman v. Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

  9. Stocks - Wikipedia

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    Stocks, unlike the pillory or pranger, restrain only the feet.. Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.The use of stocks is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in Solon's law code.