The majority of carceral environments in the US that are openly in violation of the 8th a. in degrees of not good to third-world, inhumane depravity. (The one w

The majority of carceral environments in the US that are openly in violation of the 8th a. in degrees of not good to third-world, inhumane depravity. (The one where a prisoner died of bug infestation and had a nonfunctional toilet.) The most obvious ones are those with the most deaths and substandard medical care. The problem is the prevailing US attitude of incarceration as punitive, divine retribution rather than rehabilitation and reintegration.