A heat wave that has consistently pushed temperatures well above 100 degrees across much of Texas this summer had family members of inmates on Tuesday calling for lawmakers to ensure that all of the state’s prisons are fully air conditioned.
I guarantee they just lie about the cause of death.
From the discussions I’ve had, most Texans want the prisons to be torture facilities.
The constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment is a joke in most of the country, but Texas takes it as a personal challenge.
I truly don’t understand why most of my fellow Texans feel that way. I’d be much more interested in a system that takes efforts to honestly rehabilitate folks, rather than simply punish them for wrongdoing.
Also says a LOT about the how the “justice” system works that cruelty is just fine as long as it’s not unusual, even if that usual cruelty is literal torture.
Shit, the Constitution even says slavery is ok if it’s used as a punishment. That’s literally baked into the amendment they passed to outlaw slavery.
Texas state officials LYING?! SURELY an upstanding and above all honest gentleman like Abbott would never let such a thing happen!
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Of course they lied. And of course there’s no accountability for that.
Of course they have. The cruelty is the point. They confuse justice for retribution.
