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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'd always wondered how prisonsers survive in U.S. prisons during heat waves...it sounds awful:
I know prisons aren't supposed to be comfortable, but this sounds life threatening.
Texas inmates sue for relief from prison cells that hold heat in like a parked car
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/06/20/texas-inmates-sue-for-relief-from-prison-cells-that-hold-heat-in-like-a-parked-car/
"Texas prisoners have sued (again) to force the states Department of Criminal Justice to bring temperatures in their cells down to 88 degrees or less.
Most people would probably consider the high 80?s to be uncomfortably hot, but the federal lawsuit filed on behalf of four inmates at a facility that houses ill, geriatric and disabled prisoners alleges that the status quo is far worse.
According to the suit, filed in Houston this week by the Texas Civil Rights Project and other advocates, the cells at Wallace Pack Unit, near College Station, are so hot that inmates have resorted to wrapping themselves in damp towels and lying on the concrete floors, according to Texas Monthly.
Inmates lay towels on the burning hot stainless steel tables to rest their elbows. The walls, also made of metal, trap in hot air like a parked car. Some dorm windows are sealed shut; others that do open dont provide relief from the heat. ..."
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Inmates should serve their sentences in safe, humane conditions, with air conditioning when appropriate. If AC is there for the guards it should be there for the inmates too.
gopiscrap
(23,662 posts)Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)logosoco
(3,208 posts)C Moon
(12,182 posts)Wallace Pack Unit is a low security correctional facility. Inmates are housed together in dormitories or cubicle housing. They are provided with access to programs and training that will help to rehabilitate them so that theyre ready to get their lives back on track when released. As a low security facility, TDCJ - Wallace Pack Unit has a lower staff to inmate ratio than medium or high security jails.
TDCJ - Wallace Pack Unit is a state prison. This facility is operated by the state of Texas and is used to house and rehabilitate criminals. Inmates at TDCJ - Wallace Pack Unit are generally housed in locked cells during the night and are provided certain privileges such as the use of a recreation area, TV, phones and in some cases may have a job within the prison.
surrealAmerican
(11,332 posts)These inmates are sick, old, and/or disabled, and the state of Texas has decided to torture them.
How many people have died from this?
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Not a slow roasting in intolerable heat.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)She paid for it with a horrible death by heatstroke. I think she was charged with prostitution.