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ISBN10: 0262042398, ISBN13: 9780262042390, [publisher: MIT Press] Hardcover A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guant namo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.The revelations of prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and more recently at Guant namo were shocking to most Americans. And those who condemned the treatment of prisoners abroad have focused on U.S. military procedures and abuses of executive powers in the war on terror, or, more specifically, on the now-famous White House legal counsel memos on the acceptable limits of torture. But in The Story of Cruel and Unusual, Colin Dayan argues that anyone who has followed U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment would recognize the prisoners' treatment at Abu Ghraib and Guant namo as a natural extension of the language of our courts and practices in U.S. prisons. In fact, it was no coincidence that White House legal counsel referred to a series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1980s and 1990s in making its case for torture.Dayan traces the roots of acceptable torture to slave codes of the nineteenth century that deeply embedded the dehumanization of the incarcerated in our legal system. Although the Eighth Amendment was interpreted generously during the prisoners' rights movement of the late ...