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Don't commit the crime if you can't handle it. It's a punishment.
I think you mean, don't be poor.

It's not like people in prison are actually all guilty of their convicted crime.

You'll see this double-standard a lot for minor offenses as well. How many times has MKHB been caught excessively speeding (including 90? in a school zone) and still have a license.

We forbid cruel and unusual punishment. If we lived by the morality you just articulated, we wouldn’t do so. I think slavery is cruel and unusual, I think that’s clear.