Texas inmates soaking bedsheets in toilet water to cool off in unairconditioned prisons
sacurrent.com
At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State's unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune.
Even so, it's hard to firmly establish how many have succumbed to heat-related illness, according to observers. That's because TDCJ's official stance is that no inmates have died of heat exhaustion since 2012 — the same year the agency began to be bombarded with wrongful death lawsuits from inmates' families, the Tribune reports.
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That’s 41 too many. Jesus fucking Christ, America.
Wow! That's going to save the state of Texas so much money! It's expensive to house people against their will for enjoying forbidden plants in their own homes. 🙄
what? naw, they have to meet the quota, they’ll just arrest some other poors
41 victims of negligent homicide at the hands of the state.
Forty. Freaking. One. Why has this country not been in an uproar since the first one? Why did we wait until this many? This is the first I've heard about it. Doesn't surprise me at all, but I had no idea this was happening.
Forty one!!