Posted on 11/06/2022 1:41:59 PM PST by ConservativeMind
The U.S. has the world's largest population of prisoners, and Texas holds more incarcerated people than any other state. As climate change continues to increase the severity, frequency and duration of heat waves, the approximately 160,000 individuals in Texas prisons—as well as the people who work in these settings—come under intense physical duress in prisons without climate controls, according to a new study.
The study examined the relationship between heat exposure and mortality risks in Texas prisons, focusing on how these risks vary between prisons with air conditioning and those without it.
The researchers analyzed data gathered between 2001 and 2019 showing that 271 people died due to extreme heat exposure during that timeframe.
Even a 1 degree increase above 85 degrees Fahrenheit can elevate the daily risk of dying by 0.7%, the researchers found.
The research team combined data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics on mortality in Texas prisons with temperature data from NASA and used a novel epidemiologic analysis to arrive at its findings. The team reported that approximately 13% of mortality during warm months may be attributable to extreme in Texas prison facilities without air conditioning.
It is important to note that while an average of 14 people died each year from heat-related causes in Texas prisons without air conditioning, not a single heat-related death occurred in climate-controlled prisons, said Julie Skarha.
"The majority of Texas prisons do not have universal air conditioning," Skarha said. "And in these settings, we found a 30-fold increase in heat-related mortality when compared to estimates of heat-related mortality in the general U.S. population."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
For that matter, nothing is stated about construction, farm, delivery and other workers who are not guilty of any crime other than having to pay for prisoners lounging, and these workers, and plenty more, work without A/C under the actual sun, and not shade.
Screw the prisoners. Don’t commit a crime in Texas if you don’t want to lounge around in a sometimes warm prison.
Just doing what the death penalty opponents refuse to do . . .
So they made it up as they went along?
Turn prisons into microwave ovens, two minutes later and poooofff.... Problem solved.
Move to NYC.
The know how to coddle criminals there.
Here’s an idea.
Don’t do things that land you in prison.
But air conditioning will make climate change EVEN WORSE!
At Fort Bliss the Red Flag didn’t go up until the temperature was 90°F.
Texas prisoners are lucky they’re not at Angola or Cummins or Tucker.
Yes. Another garbage article from medical express, a rag no one heard of two years ago. They delight in publishing off the wall articles that no one else will print.
Friend of mine (female) was a jailer at Tennesee Colony. Rough place. I used to bowhunt down there. Mosquitoes, snakes, and alligators everywhere. Plus wild hogs. And the occasional bigfoot.
She said the summers and winters down there absolutely sucked.
Tough s***. We don’t care. Don’t commit crimes and you will not have to worry about a warm prison.
AC isn’t a human right, sorry.
Many of these same people have no AC in their homes before they went to prison.
that is a GREAT point! we should let the climate change nuts experiment in any way they want to prisoners!
***an average of 14 people died each year from heat-related causes in Texas prisons without air conditioning,***
Wah. Trying to work up a tear. “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!”
How did Texas and Southern prisons do before air conditioning? Think about those poor criminals in the YUMA Territorial Prison back then!
Sorry, no sympathy for inmates.
I have worked shutdowns in the Houston are working outside, July and August in the sun 95 plus, temp and humidity. Sometimes in full slicker suit all taped up with breathing air for first line breaks. Tell me about heat in Texas in the summertime, pouring sweat out of rubber boots. I guess it gets hotter laying around on your ass behind bars.
Ask my hubby about the conditions at Fort Polk, Louisiana in the summer back in 1970’s. He has no sympathy for these criminals.
Your comment is exactly correct!
“Activists” should be campaigning to eliminate air conditioning in all public buildings!!!
Can we impeach that Carrier guy?
Tear down his statues?
Call out his Whiteness?
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