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To wit:

> Held: The enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.

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In part because the Eighth Amendment “prohibits certain methods a government may impose after a criminal conviction, but it does not ‘impose [any] substantive limits on what conduct a state may criminalise.’”

Exactly. The 8th amendment restricts the punishment and not the underlying crime.

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