While telling them a story about how Stinky Pete, dressed as a goblin, stole the lightning from the Juneau skies, and Scooby Doo brought it home, sticking Pete back into the anchorage cell he escaped from, I answered their questions about his treatment upon reentry to prison:
“Did they hit him and stuff, like this?” she shakes a plastic shovel.
“No, they didn’t, because of the Geneva Convention.”
I went inside and looked it up; I was right, in a way, I guess. Amazing, the things remembered sometimes. Although it seems that the Conventions exist exclusively for wartime prisoners. But, really, if Stinky Pete dresses as a goblin to thieve an explosive part of the natural world and the Borough of Juneau needs to call in a dog and some stoners to get it back, we’re somewhere on the other side of war.
The 8th Amendment affords prisoner’s the right to a minimum standard of living, free from ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment. Learning and growing.
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