A heat wave that has consistently pushed temperatures well above 100 degrees across much of Texas this summer had family members of inmates on Tuesday calling for lawmakers to ensure that all of the state’s prisons are fully air conditioned.

  • Flying Squid
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    611 year ago

    I guarantee they just lie about the cause of death.

  • @Zombiepirate
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    401 year ago

    From the discussions I’ve had, most Texans want the prisons to be torture facilities.

    The constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment is a joke in most of the country, but Texas takes it as a personal challenge.

    • SuiXi3D
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      201 year ago

      I truly don’t understand why most of my fellow Texans feel that way. I’d be much more interested in a system that takes efforts to honestly rehabilitate folks, rather than simply punish them for wrongdoing.

      • Kalkaline
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        81 year ago

        Most people haven’t spoken to anyone who’s been through the prison system. They have no idea what it’s like and what a good prison system looks like.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Because they believe that people end up in prison because of personal moral and character flaws, and they consider that a desirable state of affairs.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      81 year ago

      Also says a LOT about the how the “justice” system works that cruelty is just fine as long as it’s not unusual, even if that usual cruelty is literal torture.

      • prole
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        81 year ago

        Shit, the Constitution even says slavery is ok if it’s used as a punishment. That’s literally baked into the amendment they passed to outlaw slavery.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          41 year ago

          Yup! And exceptionalist dunces claim that the US saved the world from slavery 🤦

  • @Viking_Hippie
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    1 year ago

    Texas state officials LYING?! SURELY an upstanding and above all honest gentleman like Abbott would never let such a thing happen!

    /s

  • izzent
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    111 year ago

    Of course they lied. And of course there’s no accountability for that.

  • JayK117
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    41 year ago

    Pretty sure I saw an article once (might even have been a post from a CO) saying they take any dead bodies to the ambulance before recording time of death. Artificially gives them 0 deaths in custody or something

  • @orphiebaby
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    41 year ago

    If anyone in the US says there’s been no abuse and/or neglect in a prison, fire them and sue the shit out of them.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    Even if that was true just because someone isn’t dead doesn’t mean they’re not suffering in horrible, inhumane conditions.