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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.bsky.social |
Something I wish the article really noted is it's not a cost issue: "Texas paid more than $7.3 million in legal fees opposing air conditioning the geriatric unit of one state prison. After a 2018 settlement, the state agreed to cool the prison at a cost of less than $4 million."
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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That's right Texas paid way way more to fight a lawsuit than it would have in air conditioning. And it's not the only one! The point is to make people miserable. See also:
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Ziyyigo-Tipyigo
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"Fiscal conservatism."
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Gaspard Delanwe
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It's great that the people who have power in this world are almost exclusively the dumbest, meanest pieces of shit
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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social
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I remember reading a story about a prison going to court to fight giving a prisoner a different blanket (he was allergic to the standard one they normally had). Spent something like 30k to fight giving a guy a new 30 dollar blanket. Sheer evil.
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Alice Softpaws
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Why bother trying to keep your people alive when you have the moral high ground of making them “melt in hell”. Though this is the same state that refuses to hook up utilities to any others because they must be on their own. They don’t treat prisoners as human
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Spoonbill Reducks
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"Whut we have here is a failure to ventilate."
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Howdoyousaythat, BBQ
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Jeeze this is like Joe Arpaio’s tent city crap in Maricopa County that was shut down a number of years ago. The amount of money that man cost the state of Arizona just to be cruel was ridiculous.
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condo potato 🥔
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Prisons absolutely must be climate controlled. But I'm curious about that $4 million number because cooling isn't a one-time cost. I'd guess that was just the AC install cost
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Blue Meme
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The cruelty is the policy.
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Mela Storm
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How does cooking prisoners to death not fall under the "cruel and unusual punishment" aegis?
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Motown
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mav
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Heh. My home state of Idaho is legendary for stuff like this. Our AG essentially ran on defending lawsuits like this as a platform. It's psychotic, but psychotic is popular here.
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Hemlock Autumn
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Everybody who voted against should be in prison for crimes against humanity. In a prison with no conditioning system.
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@calizaybak.bsky.social
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They'll cheerfully burn money as long it's done in the name of cruelty.
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BeefReeferLives
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"The Cruelty Is the Point" - The republican party motto
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The Long Memory
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As ever with Republicans, the cruelty is the point.
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Dan Saltzstein
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As written, that sentence says that the entire prison was cooled for $4mil, not just the geriatric wing. Am I reading that right?
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