Nifster summarized what the rest of you said.
And to you all, I say this: You would argue unlimited punishments in *THIS* legal environment??!? Where the sale of incandescent light bulbs is illegal; where New York City bans 'too large' soft drinks; where failure to pay for the individual mandate in Obamacare could be declared a criminal act???!?
Well God Bless ya, then. May you never feel the lash, especially this particlar one.
Me, I'll labor on two fronts, one of them being, that we uphold the Constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishments.
I’ll go out on a limb and say you will not be thrown into Solitary for owning a light bulb. But if you are assaulting other prisoners or guards, you probably shouldn’t be around other prisoners or guards.
I work daily to help this country maintain its constitutional freedoms. Sorry solitary doesn’t fit the category of a violation. We live in an age where criminals are given too much power and way too many privileges. I can’t go to college for free like so many of our criminals do. I don’t get many of the things that criminals do. I am supposed to feel sorry for some duffs who has ended up going to Stony Lonesome? Not at all. I will focus my energies and my sympathies on those who have not been violent offenders
I think one might have to go back in history to understand what “cruel and unusual” punishment means.