Prison conditions violate the 8th amendment

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You can't pick and choose which laws you want to abide and which ones you don't. It takes the highest of civilization to allow your society's criminals the same rights as everyone else. The law system can't be about revenge, otherwise you might as well have the victims pronounce sentence - it must be about protecting the public and serving justice. Tormenting someone who's going to die anyway or exposing them to inhuman living conditions is cruel, and that bears no connection to what their crimes are. If you're going to do that, might as well put a bullet through their head now and get it over with.