America's 8th Amendment Disaster

Since the “tough on crime” campaign started to really reap political rewards in the early 1980’s, there has been an inverse correlation with our devolving civil rights and our rising population. 

As a result, our protection against cruel and unusual punishment as well as our right to an affordable bail have been two of the constitutional civil liberties tramped upon via the American prison lobby.

This is diametrically opposed to the ideas our forefathers had in mind when they set forth rules to protect future generations of Americans from the tyrannical justice system many American colonialists suffered from when under British rule.

https://nationalcdp.org/americas-8th-amendment-disaster/