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Nye Bevan

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1. I'm an unashamed "bleeding heart liberal" on this issue.

Reply to C Moon (Original post)

Wed Oct 1, 2014, 05:58 PM

Oct 2014

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.

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I'd always wondered how prisonsers survive in U.S. prisons during heat waves...it sounds awful: [View all] C Moon Oct 2014 OP

I'm an unashamed "bleeding heart liberal" on this issue. Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #1

I totally agree! gopiscrap Oct 2014 #3

A-fucking-men! Hippo_Tron Oct 2014 #8

I couldn't tell from the article...are these private/for profit prisons? nt logosoco Oct 2014 #2

Not 100% sure, but this article says it's run by the state of Texas. C Moon Oct 2014 #4

This is torture. surrealAmerican Oct 2014 #5

Yep. Their punishment is supposed to be incarceration. Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #6

A woman prisoner died in Arizona in an outside holding cell in Joe Arpaio's hellhole. Manifestor_of_Light Oct 2014 #7

Jesus! This is what I was wondering about. That's horrible! C Moon Oct 2014 #9