Kenedy Water Shortage Impacts Prison Conditions

[TexasTowelie]

KENEDY - A water supply shortage in Kenedy has led to some pretty bad conditions in the State prison nearby.

Two of the towns five wells failed early last week. So, the City had to use water from the prison.

That meant inmates didn't shower for a week, the toilets were only flushed every so often, and drinking water for inmates was also rationed.

The mother of one of those inmates, Dianne Wright, contacted us and showed us a letter she got from her son detailing the situation.

More at http://www.kristv.com/news/kenedy-water-shortage-impacts-prison-conditions/ .

[mbperrin]

1. Well, the town was affected, too. Temporary problem.

Fixed soon.

I'm of an age when I remember bathing once a week was the norm, there was no bottled water.

Anyway, no one singled out the little special one in custody - it was all shared.

[MotherPetrie]

2. Residents had the option of purchasing bottled water or staying with friends or in hotels

elsewhere during the shortage.

Inmates didn't.

[mbperrin]

3. If they had friends that were not in town, or a hotel not in town and could drive the extra miles

or had the extra money to do any of that.

Right?

The truth is, no one targeted these inmates. Everything was repaired as soon as possible, apparently. We're talking hours here.

People with more resources were more comfortable during this temporary outage and resulting shortage. Those with fewer resources were less comfortable.

These inmates have something to do with where they're at, right? Whereas a minimum wage worker in this town fared no better, and they simply work their butts off for very little money.

No one died, no one even had a life-threatening experience.

Go ahead and feel sorry for me in advance. The only nuclear waste dump in the US has just been opened, and it sits right on top of my water supply. When it leaks, and it will, they always do, when it leaks, 150,000 people in this county, 140,000 one over, and 30,000 more on the other side will lose everything and have to move. San Antonio will lose a good per cent of their water supply as well. See? Now that's a big, permanent problem.

Or maybe I'm just a whiner.