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.

  • be_excellent_to_each_other
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    41 year ago

    Yep, I’ve become much freer with blocking. OTOH I worry that if we all do it the assholes will just think “wow no one is arguing with me, so they all must agree!” (When in reality the rest of us have just declined to be exposed to their bullshit.)

    • MelodiousFunk
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      31 year ago

      wow no one is arguing with me, so they all must agree!

      The same shallow gene pool also likes to spout “All these downvotes must mean I’m right!”