‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates
‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates
Legal action aims to force criminal justice department to air condition prisons, where 85,000 are at risk of heat illnesses
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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
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.
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.