State Constitutional Prohibitions against Unnecessary Rigor in Arrest and Confinement
(2025)
Clauses in five state constitutions prohibit treating people who are arrested or confined with “unnecessary rigor.” Decades ago, scholars concluded that history could teach us very little about these clauses. Now with the power of digitized records and text-recognition technology, this Article reveals that “unnecessary rigor” was a recognized phrase with deep...
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