... before the court determined "proportionality analysis- of a punishment, they wrestled the question of corporal punishment, or punishment through physical force causing bodily harm. In the 1978 case of Ingram v Wright, Ingraham, a junior high-school student, was paddled by a teacher more than 20 times, which called for medical attention and kept him out of school for a week and a half. The Supreme Court ruled that the ... open, communal environment of the school atmosphere prevents the possibility of any truly cruel and unusual punishment. Corporal punishment may be used by the state in e...

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