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‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates
(www.theguardian.com)
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Despite what ppl tell you, prisoners are ppl. Treating murders, rapists, thieves, etc worse than they did their victims is not justice
One of the dead guys was sentenced for unlawful possession of a firearm. Not that he necessarily did anything with it; he just had it.
They did a wellness check and lied over the phone saying he was fine when he’d been dead for two days. what the fuck is going on in Texas?
"conservatism"
"Uhh his condition is... stable."
Texas is going to Texas. It's always been a backwards, shitty state.
On the front page earlier today was an account of somebody who carried a gun; in two separate instances, people from his neighborhood ambushed him and shot him (and in one instance it was verified on security footage that he defended himself with it after he’d been shot, and would have been killed without having the gun on him). In both cases he got charged with unlawful possession and imprisoned for the gun that saved his life.
Violent criminals are a fairly small fraction of total inmates, and a whopping 76% of the Texas jail population hasn’t even been convicted of a crime.
Also, Texas loves rapists and most of them aren’t in prison anyway. Not to mention Abbott just pardoned that convicted homicidal murderer.
Looked that up and wow thats crazy. Man texted all his racist friends about wanting to kill black people in the morning. Then he ran his car into a crowd of people. Someone walks up to him with a gun (i wonder why?) and he kills him.
This is only local jails, which makes sense as people are waiting trial then move on to long term prison.
In my local county (in Texas), there was a guy in jail for 5 years without trial (I think he's going in 6 years without trial, but a go-fund-me paid his bail last year), and 2 years in jail without trial is not uncommon.
I agree. The right to a speedy trial not being observed is an issue.
People just can't imagine this treatment ever happening to themselves.
Some of them even smoked weed or never did anything at all
It actually might be justice, depending on their crimes... But I agree with treating prisoners well because countless prisoners don't deserve anything remotely this bad. There are even a fair few innocent people in this broken system of ours.