Advocacy groups say Texas inmates are 'being cooked to death' in state prisons without air conditioning
Advocacy groups say Texas inmates are 'being cooked to death' in state prisons without air conditioning
The filing says nearly 70% of Texas Department of Criminal Justice prisons lack air conditioning and units routinely reach 100 degrees or higher.
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Somebody once said that if you want to know how free society is, you only have to look at how they treat their prisoners. When prisoners have rights, that means everyone in the society can be free. When prisoners are stripped of basic human rights, that means anyone can be imprisoned with out a legal or moral recourse.
For anyone not aware:
While the United States represents about 4.2 percent of the world's population,[5] it houses around 20 percent of the world's prisoners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate
How fucking insane is that?
Land of the free, home of the enslaved
Land of the fee, home of the slave.
I cannot wait to see the headlines when someone sings that at some major league sporting event
To give just a little more perspective, the nation with the second highest, in terms of reported numbers of prisoners, is China. We lock up more individual people than the largest country on earth by a factor of almost 8 when comparing the two nations total population to their prison population.
I guess US citizens are just the most criminal people on earth by a large factor..... /s
Just to be clear, we all understand we're talking about one of the two major political parties here right. That has caused this.
Hard to pin the blame singularly on one when the other is complicit in the same system.
It is not. Hard to pin it on them. You'll have to define "complicit" here. You mean unable to override a majority vote? Or not introducing reform legislation because we may as well flap our arms and fly to the moon?
Party of "law and order" (yeah right). Party of three strikes. Party of minimum sentencing. Party of the Federalist Society.
Hard to pin it on them? No. Not at all.
Yep.
For the "land of the free," we have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. Singapore is at 156 (per 100k), Israel is at 168, Russia is at 300, Brazil is at 389, and USA is all the way up at 531.