This issue has been reported the same way going back at least 20 years. Climate change doesn’t make prisons in the US South any more of a human rights violation. Urgent action on this issue has been needed… for a long time.
Can’t see your logic. Some decrepit old prison with no air conditioning was 95° in the summer twenty years ago, now it’s 105°, but you don’t think climate change is making such prisons more of a human rights violation?
Yeah because it was already too hot then. In other words if it kills 12 people in the summer of 2006 and 50 people now in 2023, it’s worse but whether or not it is a violation of human rights is a yes or no question, and the answer is yes.
Uh… What? Can you make an even more outrageously bad headline?
Wtl tho?
Wtl?
Where’s the lie?
That it is not a torture chamber and that climate change has nothing to do with it.
Simply install AC and there can be all the climate change with zero impact in houses.
Building prisons shitty is not climate change. And while heat is crap, it is not torture.
Have you ever been in a prison?
Prisons were built for pre-climate change conditions.
If heat can’t be torture, how do children left in cars die?
Not in a prison we discuss here.
Installing AC later on is no problem.
Just because something can be harmful does not make it torture.
Yet intense heat has so affected imprisoned Louisiana adults that officials have had to step up suicide watches. At the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, a U.S. Department of Justice investigation found indoor temperatures reaching 145 degrees last year. In Texas, where 70% of prison living quarters reportedly lack air conditioning, incarceration becomes execution, as climate change drives already blistering summer temperatures even higher.
In what sense is locking people in 145° cells not torture?
