At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State’s unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune.

Even so, it’s hard to firmly establish how many have succumbed to heat-related illness, according to observers. That’s because TDCJ’s official stance is that no inmates have died of heat exhaustion since 2012 — the same year the agency began to be bombarded with wrongful death lawsuits from inmates’ families, the Tribune reports.

  • @Zombiepirate
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    1 year ago

    Imagine trying to take the moral high ground after stroking it to prison torture.

    Conservatism is a cancer on society.

    Edit: it should be noted that the OP of this thread got removed, so Lemmy dropped these angry comments onto another user’s thread.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Oh, that makes a lot more sense because the comment I see these replies attached to is both fairly innocuous and entirely unrelated to what the responses are talking about. I thought they had just edited the original comment.

    • Jaysyn
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      11 year ago

      Kbin doesn’t do that. Just says deleted by moderator.