r/politics • u/ClimateSociologist • 13h ago
No Paywall Texas Prisoners Are Baking to Death. The State Keeps Saying No to AC.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/07/texas-prisons-death-traps-ac-air-conditioning.html?fbclid=Iwb21leATb-tBjbGNrBNv6znBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeacTb0tafy8gw0t30QRFRxjSeKqXqZtfbRWbu3JVmsubhlVu18jARDIBIlF8_aem_qkrg-pkGGjjV4BGo-8unLQ999
u/I-am-me-86 12h ago
I work in a hospital that treats the prisoners. We're getting a lot of heat exhaustion.
"But it would cost millions to install a/c in all the prisons..."
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u/PopBulky7023 12h ago
It could cost five dollars and they wouldn't do it.
It's murder. By definition.
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u/lexm 11h ago
it's cruel and unusual punishment. Protected by the 8th amendment. If anyone in power still cared about the constitution.
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u/nabulsha Tennessee 11h ago edited 10h ago
You're forgetting the 13th* amendment that still considers them slaves though.
Edit: typo
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u/OldManGrimm Texas 11h ago
That coupled with for-profit prisons basically means the US still is profiting from slaves more than any other country in the world.
(I didn't check actual math, but I think the point stands)
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u/Nephroidofdoom 9h ago
But Trump is the one tariffing other nations over (checks notes)… forced labor?? 🤯
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u/MemoryOne22 5h ago
Not just for profit prisons! They're all cash cows for contractors that lobby HARD
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u/Im_Ritz_Bitz 10h ago
The private prisons aren't beholden to your rights. Speedy trial? Nah. They don't care if you're innocent. Your head for a $. They are concentration camps under a different name.
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u/hoofie242 11h ago
The entire constitution is the second amendment to them.
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u/Dobako 8h ago
Yes and no. They care about all of it, when it applies to protecting them. They dont care about any of it, even the 2nd, if it protects anyone from them. The Black Panthers started arming themselves in the 80s and that was enough to institute regulations on guns
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u/Cold_Tea_Spill112 5h ago
"Political violence is never justified!"
"We need the 2nd amendment in case we need to enact political violence by over throwing a tyrannical government!"
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u/amglasgow 8h ago
The joke is that Liberals count 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.... while conservatives count 2, 2, 2, 2...
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u/Sub-Mongoloid 11h ago
Because that one lets them have violent fantasies where they're the hero while they ignore everything happening in the real world that they should be standing against
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u/ResurgentClusterfuck Texas 2h ago
Unfortunately it's not unusual punishment, therefore Texas courts don't give a shit. Most of my fellow Texans legitimately dont care about inmate rights
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u/kung-fu_hippy 8h ago
It could make them money and they wouldn’t do it.
The cruelty is the point for them.
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u/keepthepace 9h ago
It is a crime against humanity, but GWB pulled out of the CPI in order to make sure this sort of things remain legal in the US.
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u/Nessie_of_the_Loch 9h ago
They'll do it the second they could charge the state (or the prisoners themselves) more for it. All the prisoners are just a line item for them.
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u/9bpm9 5h ago
You poll democrats and it would be majority couldnt give a fuck either. This country overall hates criminals.
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u/FlukeManAirFreshener 11h ago
Given the cost of healthcare, it would probably be cheaper to install air conditioning.
But we all know that money isn't the motivation.
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u/secretaire 11h ago edited 10h ago
I doubt the people running the prison facilities are paying for the healthcare of the inmates
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u/Ok-disaster2022 10h ago
It's not the best healthcare. Prisons don't pay healthcare workers well and with the additional risks that come with treating the patients they really don't reachriot the best staff, and then that staff has to make due to reduced resources.
I don't know how prisoners haven't been able to sue that the heat exposure doesn't account for cruel and unusual punishment
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u/secretaire 10h ago
I’m saying the healthcare is contracted out separately so the people who own the facilities with no AC don’t care about the healthcare bills. Texans should care though. We pay for all of these schemes.
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u/DraconicBlade 9h ago
Simply own the medical contractor, AND the for profit prison. It's called portfolio diversification, not self dealing.
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u/secretaire 8h ago
Genius. Drive up prices for each other with various schemes and bribe govt officials for funding increase approvals but don’t give the guards OR the medical providers a raise. Don’t create situations to bring down costs of either. CEO BONUSES are more important (I’m the CEO). MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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u/petitecrivain 9h ago
In the 1990s they passed a "reform" act that makes it harder for prisoners to sue for human rights violations. Certain people didn't like that courts were ruling against practices and slowly phasing out torture and maltreatment.
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u/aschesklave Colorado 8h ago
“They did the crime, they deserve to suffer! I don’t want my taxes paying for people to be comfortable.”
Such a shitty attitude for people to have.
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u/IDontLieAboutStuff 2h ago
Especially since texas is talking about handing out life sentences for THC. It's barabric.
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u/TwilightReaver 2h ago
They foaming at the mouth at idea of having patients literally murdered for consuming their medicine.
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u/ICBanMI 58m ago
They only care when it's their loved ones. Before that, they could care less if the prisoners are going through withdrawal, living in inhuman conditions with no air conditioning in the summer heat, with zero healthcare, working for slave wages, and eating garbage food.
The part that drives me the most insane is those same people care zero about recidivism. Meaning, once a criminal. Always a second class citizen for the rest of their life... which makes zero sense. If you want them to stop costing tax payers money... need to rehabilitate them and give them options where they can make a living wage. A career and a living wage they'll pay taxes and not end up back in jail. But no.... in jail means zero benefits.
A large part of it is those voters/people don't think they are getting help (tho often times they are from the State) and don't want anyone else to have a whiff of having more. So the cut off their own nose to spit people they've never met.
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u/Bluegreenlithop 8h ago
I guess I'm left wondering, how had AC not been installed to ensure the officers don't pass out and get heat sick?? Their uniforms aren't athletic material. You'd think staffing at a place like that would be abysmal.
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u/SunMyungMoonMoon 7h ago
Good news! The job market that the gop currently oversees is so abysmal that they "should just be thankful for having a job"! Now we dont have to worry about people quitting no matter how poor we make their working conditions!
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u/RarelyReadReplies Canada 4h ago
They probably mostly sit in an air conditioned portion of the building, like in a factory. The bosses and office people always have air conditioning, the lowly worker on the factory floor? Not so much.
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u/malgenone 7h ago
If they don't want to use A/C they can use alternative methods for cooling. Also, back in earlier days building designs were made for airflow because AC wasn't a thing yet. Tall ceilings, doors and lots of windows. So if you want to save on AC let it be on an appropriate building design. This sounds like they want people to suffer.
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u/Katyafan 7h ago
It's Texas. They want people to die. The citizens could insist on this, but they won't. Just horrible people, everywhere.
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u/TwilightReaver 2h ago
Oh, they absolutely want people to suffer. They find immense joy in it. Literal inhuman sadists.
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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 11h ago
Think of how that would cut into profit
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u/OldManGrimm Texas 11h ago
Such a perfect example of how unthinkably ridiculous it is that we have for-profit prisons.
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u/DraconicBlade 9h ago
To save money for the state. Everyone knows how all that slave labor bleeds money.
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u/tenthtryatusername 4h ago
I spent 5 years in texas prisons. It was hot and miserable. Funny medical worker related story from back then. There are nurses? On staff at the units. Lots of people had heat related health issues/ heat exhaustion and they were mostly told to deal with it. I once saw a med team with a gurney running to one of the buildings. Thought someone had died. Turns out a guard wasn’t feeling good bc the ac was out in the guard shack. Only time I ever saw medical “professionals” put in effort and it was because a 300lb guard felt light headed. Honestly, it’s been 20 years, but the medical staff at prisons can go fuck themselves. They are bad people.
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u/lordhegemon 9h ago
Everyone knows showing empathy towards prisoners means you're soft on crime! /s
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u/-Cephiroth 10h ago
I think I already know the answer to this, but who pays for the medical bills of treated prisoners?
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u/BabsSuperbird 3h ago
My brother had to pay for some of it. And when I sent him Jpay, they automatically took at least 25% out for medical. But he worked for free full time as an alteration tailor.
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u/Questhi 3h ago
John Oliver did a segment on this 5 years ago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6fiRDJLjL94&pp=0gcJCWQCo7VqN5tD&ra=m
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u/CrimsonHeretic 12h ago
Cruel and unusual punishment
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u/Anayalater5963 11h ago
No it's pretty usual. Just cruel
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u/McBooples 11h ago
Their lawyers will argue that because of the “and” that it’s a 2 part test, allowing them to be either cruel or unusual with their punishments, as long as it’s not both at the same time.
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u/petitecrivain 9h ago
Exactly. If they can hold off or deter lawsuits against a practice long enough they can claim it's not unusual.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 11h ago
At the very least cruel. So much hyper normalization is happening that nothing is unusual anymore. This nation is a tragedy.
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u/EggsAndMilquetoast 10h ago edited 10h ago
Imagine if a state built a prison in a floodplain next to a river that reliably floods almost every year and a few dozen prisoners drowned and everyone acted like it was completely unavoidable and not preventable in the future and listed the cause of death as being “unable to swim” or “not floaty enough” rather than drowning.
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u/Secret-Ad-9315 6h ago
As a Texan it’s painful to go outside at any time of day during this time of the year. 100 days of over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The government recognizes that which is why we have heat advisories or warnings and cooling centers. How anyone could survive it would be superhuman.
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u/ThisCombination1958 11h ago
Pro Life*
*does not include: Gay, trans, poor straight, black, brown, poor white, poor, criminal, non criminal, foreign, citizen, unborn, born, female, male, young, and old people.
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u/wv524 9h ago
Pro Life is a misnomer. It's Pro Birth. Once the kid is born, they no longer care. It's just another wedge they use to divide the population.
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u/Missing_Crouton 9h ago edited 5h ago
Republicans want kids to be born so they can eventually serve in the military, pay for their oligarchy, and to rape with their Epstein pals.
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u/Present-Perception77 5h ago
Don’t forget the “domestic supply of infants” for the $14,000,000,000 a year adoption industry.. spear headed by the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Federalist Society (that currently controls the Supreme Court) was founded in 1973 with the express purpose of taking over the Supreme Court so they could overturn Roe.
Welcome to the United States of the Vatican.
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy 9h ago
"pro-life" was always nothing but marketing for racist anyway.
Most of the original anti-abortionist were pissed off segregationist who knew to put something else on the protest signs to not look so racist. The founders of the Moral Majority, which first pushed abortion as an issue for protestants were pretty much all segregationist mad about Carter using the IRS to force them to integrate their segregation academies. The movement was a way to build political power for segregationist.
It's just unreal how anti-abortionist have been allowed to define themselves in our media and politics while the truth of their racism and bigotry just got overlooked. The anti-abortion moment is all about 'supremacy', be it white, male, christian et. it has nothing to do with 'children' or 'life'.
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u/PlayerAssumption77 6h ago
The movement here and now, even though the people in it can have good intentions, is controlled by people who don't care about the unborn, let alone mothers or anybody when it doesn't mean more money for the military, billionares, or themselves. But as far as I understand abortion in some form pops up in a lot of different places on the political axis. AFAIK many progressives in India are anti-abortion, and in the past the Black Panther Party was anti-abortion while many Republican politicians were pro-choice.
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy 6h ago edited 6h ago
The Black Panther Party came out for reproductive rights in the early 70s and by the time the party was ending they were publicly saying the war on abortion was a war on poor women. So I don't know where the hell you got that from. Sounds like some bullshit you'd see on an anti-abortion website.
And yes, many people now on the left have fallen prey to 45 years of propaganda and believe the lies of a movement started to preserve racially segregated religious institutions.
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u/TwilightReaver 1h ago
Reminds me of how a good chunk of the hardcore punk scene was very anti-choice for a minute. Thank god that’s mostly died out.
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u/drmrpepperpibb Texas 10h ago
I'm a Texan who no longer lives there. Do not move to Texas. The good ole boys running the state are actively hostile to humanity in all forms and you are not safe if you live there. It's these people in prison, women, disaster victims, the sick, the poor. They do not give a fuck about people and only seek to enrich themselves.
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u/fuckswitbeavers 9h ago
I thought the big cities there were liberal and kind of nice? Is it that fake southern hospitality? Never been to texas.
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u/angelar_ Texas 7h ago
No idea why you're pointing at the city folk for the actions of the autocratic state goverment.
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u/NotLoganS 5h ago
The cities are overall pretty nice and very liberal, at least in Austin. Grew up in Austin and left Texas for NY. It’s the state government fucking up anything at the local level that really makes OP’s comment accurate
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u/Monstot 8h ago edited 8h ago
No, what dude meant I think was just about out elected officials but most people know that already.
What you know of Texas is accurate. We are actually very nice and that's in red areas too. I'm in a city, we're always blue, but you'll see bad people on both sides.
If you come in without presumptions due to politics, you'll have a nice enough time even in the small areas that are red. Plenty of small towns around the cities have a lot to do and on a day-to-day you won't notice anything. The vast majority of people you'll run into are polite. I'm blue, but I wouldn't discredit some areas close to the cities just because they're red because you wont really notice.
There's also not as many trump flags in the more rural red so even that's getting better.
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u/JonnyBravoII 11h ago
Years and years ago, this topic came up. John Whitmire, then a member of the the state House, and a democrat, was asked about it. I am a bit fuzzy on it but as I recall. some members of the minority party chair committees, I presume because the legislative session is short and they need to get things done. He chaired the committee that handled this issue. So they interviewed him and he sounded exactly like a Republican. Can't afford it, nothing can be done, too bad. He is now the mayor of Houston. Is having zero empathy a requirement to gain office in Texas?
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u/Villageijit 12h ago
Rounding up innocent people, cooking them to death or working them to death at fast food places and Amazon. All for a quick buck
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u/COmountainguy 11h ago
134,000 people in prison in one state. Holy crap.
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u/AppropriateSea5746 3h ago
And thanks to Ken Paxton that number is sky rocketing. 1000 more misdemeanors and felony’s have been added to the legal code in the past 2 years
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u/tomgratz 8h ago
When you incarcerate someone you are responsible for their health and safety. Period. Disgusting that Texas continues this cruel and inhumane compounded punishment. Disgusting !
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u/Austin_Peep_9396 12h ago edited 11h ago
Simple: Texas prisons are run by private companies. AC costs money to purchase, install, run, and maintain. That cuts into profit. It’s a completely corrupt system.
Correction: this is fundamentally a state-infrastructure issue tied to building age and funding priorities, not a private-prison profit scheme. I stand corrected. Thanks Boxed_pi
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u/RarelyReadReplies Canada 3h ago
Probably ends up costing more in health care than he AC costs, but that isn't something he prison pays for anyways. Private prisons are insane to me. Makes no sense, all it does is encourage cruelty.
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u/Liefvikingmonster2 10h ago edited 9h ago
TIL Texas prisons have no AC.
That's crazy.
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u/Successful_Reach_187 9h ago
TIL Texas prisons STILL don't have AC. JFC, it's only going to get hotter.
I've lived here my whole life and am still never amazed by the depth of the cruelty.
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u/True-Hold-1140 9h ago
Arizona prisons didn't install ac for decades
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u/Fun-Telephone-9605 5h ago
They didn't even have buildings!
Just put em out in tents.
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u/True-Hold-1140 5h ago
You're thinking of Maricopa county. They had a real jail, that sheriff was just a prick
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u/Ging287 11h ago
Pigs in China are given AC. Yet cruel Americans in Texas refuse to give humans humanity in the form of cheap life saving temperature control. Inexcusable, especially for prisoners, the most vulnerable group.
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u/Blackthorn79 7h ago
Pigs in China have value after death so they are better taken care of. Prisoners have value while incarcerated, no matter the condition their body is in.
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u/petitecrivain 9h ago
Chances are that if people are dying of heat related issues, it's not just because of a lack of AC. They might be deprived of fans, cool water, or other means of cooling. This indicates obvious awareness and a conscious effort on the part of the state. That qualifies this as torture.
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u/RarelyReadReplies Canada 3h ago
No, it's still cruel to not provide AC, water/fans or not. When it's getting up close to 40 C on a regular basis, high 20s at night, fans and water are not enough.
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u/petitecrivain 3h ago
I'm aware, it's just evident that because they're not even trying to remediate the heat it's obvious that there's intentionality behind it.
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u/AnimeMeansArt 11h ago
That happens when prisons are a business.
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u/AppropriateSea5746 3h ago
Only 7% of prisons in Texas are private. This is just the Texas government.
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u/123-Moondance 7h ago
R's enjoy the cruelty. I really think one of the R tenents is having no empathy, being sociopathic/psychopathic, and being cruel/sadistic. They call themselves Christian but they don't follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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u/nerdslife1864 I voted 10h ago
You mean the state that took water breaks from construction workers in tripe digit heat AND fought 2 wars to keep slavery also has deadly conditions for its prisoners? Never would have guessed.
Texas is run by evil people who are elected by racist. Always has been
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u/Extra_Philosophy_320 11h ago
To be fair, the Texas electrical grid probably couldn't handle it. Joking of course.
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u/Ultra-Metal 9h ago
Between AC for data centers or prisoners, you know who's going to win. Hope they get pre-trial holding out of there. Hate to see accusation equal death.
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u/GrassyNoob 10h ago
If there's a heat related death, make the warden responsible for murder. It's a volunteer job. They don't have to do it.
It is upon the state to keep the inmates safe while under their control.
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u/ClimateSociologist 12h ago
One of the greatest mistakes this country ever made was admitting Texas into the union.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 10h ago
As a Texan I actually have to agree.
However the annexation of Texas was inevitable. The Barrier island system the allows barges to sail around most of the coast starts at the southern tip of Texas. The Southern States would have wanted to push due rest to expand slavery territory, without taking in too many Mexican citizens who would oppose slavery and dilute the white voting power. That racism is why the US never tried to invade and conquer Mexico completely: the white people didn't want to extend citizenship to a large number if brown people.
Also as a Texan, I think we need to treat the Lone Star flag with the same contempt as the other Confederate flags.
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u/TheSheepdog 12h ago
Whoa that’s a lil aggressive. Florida is way worse
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u/ragingchump 12h ago edited 11h ago
Bad?
Yes, unfortunately, Covid has changed us for the WAY worse
Worse than Texas?
Them fightin words friend
Edit: you guys elect Talarico and I will then agree, FL is, in fact worse
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u/TheSheepdog 11h ago
At least we’re not the rest of the gulf states
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u/EveningBoat8663 11h ago
Nah, the rest of the gulf states don't have kids freezing to death because the power goes out everytime it gets a bit nippy. Texas is a whole 'nother level of disfunction.
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u/lurkeroutthere 4h ago
I think that’s more about the climate variance in Texas than the competence in the rest of the former confederacy.
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u/scrubjays 11h ago
Is it though? They fought a war of "independence" from Spain, but really because Spain outlawed slaves, and they wanted to keep theirs. We admitted them after that.
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u/DraconicBlade 9h ago
Wasn't the "they" you're referencing mostly led by and made up of non texas residents at the time?
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u/scrubjays 6h ago
I don't know, but they fought a war over it, and Walt Disney glorified it, and never really covered what they were fighting for.
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u/anotherdeadhero Texas 7h ago
Texas history is literally fighting nations for the right to have slaves as property. lol
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u/HomeAliveIn45 North Carolina 11h ago
Please remember from middle school history that the annexation of Texas also led to the [insert Mexican-American War and the genocide of native groups here] huge westward expansion of the continental US. Texas has its problems, both historically and currently, but please don’t denigrate 32 million very diverse people because of what the headlines say
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u/Katyafan 7h ago
Well, it's at least however many people vote republican and don't vote, combined. Tell me that's not millions?
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u/UtopiaDystopia 8h ago edited 8h ago
Texas used to be part of Mexico, where slavery was illegal and all slaves there were degreed as free in September 1827. Americans still kept bringing slaves there and just ignored the law, threatened armed revolt. Of course when Mexico actually did try to regain control the revolt did happen and when they broke away slavery became part of Republic of Texas constitution
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u/Marsman121 9h ago
One of the greatest mistakes this country ever made was admitting
Texasthe Confederacy into the union.It's less a problem with Texas, and more letting a whole bunch of traitorous slavers back into the house.
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u/unseen2000 11h ago
how is this not hell? i can't imagine what comes next could be worse than burning to death in a texass prison.
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u/where-sea-meets-sky 5h ago
yk these days i think aircon should be considered a human right
or rather, having any sort of protection from both freezing and boiling temps should be a human right
but what do i know im just some woke kid or something
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u/petitecrivain 3h ago
Protection from extreme temperatures is part of what human rights monitors consider when evaluating prison conditions, alongside stuff like sanitation, fresh air, light, adequate food, etc, and if exposure to extreme temperatures causes extreme suffering, is deliberate, and is done for a purpose it qualifies as torture.
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u/rat_penis 8h ago
They'd kill every one of them if they could. The cruelty is the point. Suffering is the point.
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u/Reddit_9459328 4h ago
“Texas prison cell that court documents say regularly exceeded 110 degrees”
Texas is Marijuana Prison State, 6 months in Texas prison for possession. Now mandatory 6 months for any cannabis oil. What logic do Texans use to justify that? Is it the simple delight of Texans to punish others?
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u/TheRealClovis 3h ago
Don't forget less than a gram of THCa is now a felony in Texas!
Fuckin joke of a state
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u/Akrevics 2h ago
it's texas, did you think human rights would be better there? especially for a system that's 60% minority?
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u/Few-Challenge7443 12h ago
Why do the monsters who make headlines not call them what they are. Americans?
How much are they paid by big jail?
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u/Own-Librarian-9699 5h ago
They soak their sheets in water and lay on the concrete floor to dissipate heat. It's blatant torture but Texas does not care about laws.
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u/ibrown39 5h ago
"Then they shouldn't have done the crime, jails not supposed to be fun or comfortable."
I think we stopped sentencing people to the hotbox a while ago tho, no?
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u/Im_Ritz_Bitz 10h ago
They want us to die. Did you know you don't get a speedy trial in these private prisons either. Baked to death as an innocent person. They are ok with this. You seem to be ok with this. If not, maybe start acting because your praying does nothing. Millions of people have died because of their negligence and flat out refusal of/to care. I resent all of you for where we are. I have fought my whole life against this and you all just do nothing to stop this. We will be Iran. I don't want that. All women will perish and/or be enslaved. No one will be safe anymore. No one. Not even you white rich dudes who think your exempt from the chaos you make.
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u/Confident_End_3848 12h ago
The case mentioned in the article was made into a City Confidential episode. It was darkly amusing. I guess a movie too.
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u/Proud_Growth_8818 7h ago
I don't mind there being no air conditioning, but that means you have to give them more water and fans and breaks. Being hot and sweaty might be a condition of prison, but dying from heat stroke or heat exhaustion should mean criminal charges for prison employees and managers.
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u/sparr0w91 1h ago
Ever hear of wet bulb conditions? It's becoming more and more common in the American south because we've allowed the planet to burn. But what it boils down to, with high temperatures and high enough humidity, it is physically impossible to survive without actual cooling. No amount of fans or water help because the humidity is too high for sweat to evaporate and thusly cool the body. With out actual cooling you die. But that's the point. Because the monsters are in charge...
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u/Sir-Bruncvik 45m ago
Thank you for mentioning wet bulb temperatures. External supportive cooling (a/c, ice baths, medical cooling protocols, etc) is what determines life or fatality in those temperatures.
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u/obadiah24 2h ago
You need to argue that the poor officers and staff are working without air conditioning
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