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flag Prisoner lawsuits under the Eighth Amendment are winning less than 1% of the time, a new analysis shows.

flag Business Insider's analysis of nearly 1,500 prisoner lawsuits found that protections under the Eighth Amendment, which guards against cruel and unusual punishment, have significantly weakened. flag Prisoners' cases settle a third as often as non-prisoners' civil rights suits and win less than 1% of the time. flag The 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act has played a key role in this decline, making it harder for prisoners to file and win lawsuits.

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