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.
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.
...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.
How about our boys in Iraq or in the gulf on blacktop flight deck? How do they deal with their “hot box?”
Too Bad tough S#!T
Cant do the time don’t do the crime.
Shucky darn.
Probably should consider doing their crimes in a Northern East Coast or West Coast state where coddling of criminals is the socially accepted norm.
I’m a Texan who grew up without A/C at home or in school in the 70s. Four generations have lived in this house which didn’t get A/C until ‘95. Heck, the A/C is off today and the windows are open.
Whaaa, big whiney babies. If they can’t stand the heat, stay out of the prison kitchen. Go do your crimes in more moderate climates. Half my relatives work/retired at TDCJ and they aren’t crying.
I grew up in Iowa in the mid-30’s to the early 50’s where it was really hot in July, August and we did not have air conditioning. I do not feel sorry for the inmates.
I grew up in the ‘40s-’50s in Dallas TX. Public schools had open windows and ceiling fans in the hot weather and we kids played all types of sports outside during P.E. (remember when schools had P.E.?)
Our 800 sq.ft. house didn’t even have a swamp pump until about ‘53. We used a small exhaust fan in a North window to pull a draft through the house from an open South window.
After supper, neighbors would gather in the yard on the East side of our house with lawn chairs, blankets for kids, ice chests for drinks or watermelon. We would all be out there until about 10-11pm, just to allow the houses to cool down enough to go to bed. ....There was a major heat problem and drought there in the early ‘50s.
We hadn’t committed any crimes deserving punishment. We survived.
I feel no empathy for those who were convicted of crimes that resulted in them being in State prisons. I’m sure the prisons have fans.
I know that years’ ago, the Texas prisoners had to work the farmlands on the prison grounds, from which food was provided to feed the prisoners and sell to local markets. Those prisoners weren’t so pansy as to be filing class action suits.