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In U.S. Jails, a Constitutional Clash Over Air-Conditioning
nytimes.com ^
| 08/16/2016
| ALAN BLINDER
Posted on 08/16/2016 11:46:38 AM PDT by massmike
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Keith Cole, 62, who is serving a life sentence for a 1994 murder, is a plaintiff in a Texas class-action lawsuit claiming that high temperatures in prisons are inhumane.
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posted on
08/16/2016 11:46:38 AM PDT
by
massmike
To: massmike
As much as a law-and-order person as I am, prisons without AC in Texas is like being confined to a “hot-box” you see in prison camp movies. It can get to well over 100 degrees, health-threatening.
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posted on
08/16/2016 11:50:14 AM PDT
by
rstrahan
To: massmike
I can see having AC in a prison’s medical facility for at risk older/elderly inmates or those to whom extreme heat could be deadly - otherwise, nope.
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posted on
08/16/2016 11:51:10 AM PDT
by
LouieFisk
To: rstrahan
I took a peek into a jail in South America/ Colombia once. Believe me, these guys are in Shangri-La. Those folks had to have outsiders bring them FOOD if they wanted to eat, etc.
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posted on
08/16/2016 11:51:38 AM PDT
by
bboop
(does not suffer fools gladly)
To: massmike
It cracks me up that public housing where I live has heat pump air conditioning. That should be a perk you get if you actually earn your living.
The prisons are as comfortable as at any time in US history. Nothing has changed. Nothing needs to.
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posted on
08/16/2016 11:53:39 AM PDT
by
Mr. Douglas
(Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
To: rstrahan
...prisons without AC in Texas is like being confined to a hot-box you see in prison camp movies. It can get to well over 100 degrees, health-threatening.
When was that not the case?
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posted on
08/16/2016 11:54:24 AM PDT
by
Mr. Douglas
(Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
To: rstrahan
How about our boys in Iraq or in the gulf on blacktop flight deck? How do they deal with their “hot box?”
To: massmike
Blame it on John Kerry. He claims A/C is a threat to the planet. Just doin’ their bit for the cause, doncha know.
To: massmike
Save the Earth!
Turn off the air conditioning in all prisons!
It’s a moral imperative!
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posted on
08/16/2016 11:56:31 AM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
To: Mr. Douglas
They watch TV ten hours a day and make homemade tattoo guns. If they were out on the chain gang 12 hours a day in the summer heat, I might be inclined to say that a little A/C for comfortable sleeping at night is in order.
Otherwise...NO.
To: massmike
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posted on
08/16/2016 11:57:25 AM PDT
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
To: massmike
Carr: Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell's at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed... spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one'll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Carr, the floor walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in...
Luke: ...the box.
Carr: I hope you ain't going to be a hard case.
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posted on
08/16/2016 11:58:53 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: massmike
No more than in my grade school and high school in the 50’s.
Screw these pigs
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posted on
08/16/2016 11:59:37 AM PDT
by
CGASMIA68
(kant spell er punktuate,fluncked english.Gramer to!!)
To: rstrahan
Too Bad tough S#!T
Cant do the time don’t do the crime.
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posted on
08/16/2016 12:00:30 PM PDT
by
CGASMIA68
(kant spell er punktuate,fluncked english.Gramer to!!)
To: philman_36
Except they don’t work worth a darn in the climates discussed in the article.
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posted on
08/16/2016 12:02:18 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: colorado tanker; P-Marlowe
To: massmike
But John Kerry says that air conditioning is a greater threat than terrorists. Why should poor incarcerated criminals be exposed to such danger?
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posted on
08/16/2016 12:03:43 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(Never Hillary)
To: DuncanWaring
Except they dont work worth a darn in the climates discussed in the article. Yep. Evaporative coolers only work in low humidity climates. There are not very many of those in Texas or Louisiana.
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posted on
08/16/2016 12:06:32 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(Never Hillary)
To: massmike
Nope. I work in 100 degree plus heat running a machine. No ac for me and my health is suffering. Screw you if you are in jail sitting on your butt in the heat. If you have a problem with it maybe you shoulda thunk it over before you did what got you there. I cut steel and it’s hot, my metal working brothers in heat treat, welding, and foundry work got it worse, and they are are making a living not feeding off the system like this parasite.
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posted on
08/16/2016 12:09:59 PM PDT
by
BudgieRamone
(Everybody loves a bonk on the head.)
To: massmike
Soon they won’t have to worry about A/C. obama is going to release all BLM types once they get obamalaw.That should clear out most of the prisons.
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posted on
08/16/2016 12:13:06 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~White House Media=Goebbels)
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