Ruiz V. Estelle Summary

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In 1972 the director of the Texas Department of Corrections was served with a civil action against him. By 1974, the director had several civil actions against him, and all these civil actions were turned into a class action known as Ruiz v. Estelle. David Ruiz was the prison inmate who bought a civil action against W.J Estelle, who was the Director of the Texas Department of Corrections at the time. Ruiz civil action was a total of fifteen pages long (Prison Reform). Ruiz complained that he was confined to unconstitutional living area, that he was harassed by correctional officers, and that is was giving little to no medical attention (Prison Reform). After Ruiz civil action was brought up, seven other inmates brought up similar civil actions against W.J Estelle. District Judge William …show more content…

In the eighth amendment of the US constitution, it states that we should not treat people with cruelty. Inmates should be treat with respect from everyone in the facility, because they will not treat the correctional officer, and other inmates with respect if they do not get treated with respect. I believe that any prison should treat there inmates with respect whether they like it or not, because they inmate will treat the officers the way the officers treat them. Just because an inmates has committed a serious crime does not all the rest of us to beat them to death or treat them with cruelty. What does that make us as human beings? It makes us just a cruel as them, I believe, so why not show respect those inmates since, they obviously did not have that respect for the victim of the crime they committed. A cruel or unusual punishment could be considered, beating someone to death, torching someone cure forms of pain. A cruel or unusual punishment usually leading to death would constitute as

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