Continued Controversy Over The Eighth Amendment
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5 pages in length. Protecting the rights inherent to every United States citizen is the foundation upon which the nation's Constitution was originally drafted; without this historic document and its subsequent amendments, the founding fathers realized the potential for America becoming a land held hostage by power, greed and injustice. Interestingly, this seems all too often to be the case even with the legally binding nature of constitutional rights, inasmuch as each of the existing amendments continues to be misinterpreted, modified or essentially ignored when it fits a certain circumstance. The Eighth Amendment (prisoner rights) is one of the most overlooked when it comes to amendment controversy, a reality that can readily be attributed to general indifference from the public where the context of rights and inmates intersects. While prisoners are incarcerated for breaking the law of an otherwise civilized society, the masses find it difficult to extend them the same rights as they had outside prison once they cross that socially unacceptable line, however, criminals are still legally mandated to receive a certain level of civil liberties despite their transgressions. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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