Inmates demand air conditioning (Thanks to ACLU)

Grand Rapids Press ^ | 2/2/07

[CindyDawg]

Our military manage.

[outofstyle]

Coincidentally, just yesterday I toured a maximum security prison. These are bad guys but it still shook me. There are 750 prisoners who spend 23 hours a day in a tiny cell. Half of them have cell mates and half are alone. This really would be a fate worse than death.

[Mr. Brightside]

I lived for many years without airconditioning.

[metmom]

So who's going to pay for my air conditioning? It's gets hot here in the summer sometimes, too, and I want some.

[CindyDawg]

Me too but your shelter has to be designed for it.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Ever more, it is clear that Devil's Island was way too comfortable.

IMO, agricultural reclamation of Antarctica is the way to go.

[Calpernia]

My children's private school doesn't even have air conditioning.

[Aarchaeus]

So who's going to pay for my air conditioning? It's gets hot here in the summer sometimes, too, and I want some.

You pay for it yourself. If and when your state pays the wages for someone to chain you to a concrete bed in a small enclosed place, then it will be obligated to provide enough air conditioning to keep you from dying from heat stroke or dehydration. Obligated because no government at any level has the right to arbitrarily change a one-year sentence into a death penalty.

[goodnesswins]

"Several prisoners sleep on the floor to stay cool."

SOOOO WHAT! That's exactly what WE did last summer when it was sooo hot in our upstairs bedroom. poor wittle babies.

[Boiler Plate]

I bet they can't even eat 50 eggs.

[Screamname]

They are lucky they aren`t locked up with permanent pictures of Helen Thomas naked on the walls with Hillary speeches blaring 24 hours a day through speakers. If it was up to me that`s what would happen. Crime would be reduced to zero in a snap.

""I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and ack ack ack ack..yadda yadda"

[Screamname]

lol! I wonder how much he really ate for that movie.

[yoe]

Where do criminals think they are going to when they serve time for their crimes, the Country Club? GitMo is a paridise compaired to most prisons in the USA....hope Gitmo doesn't become a model.

[Jaysun]

"When we were single-celled, it was bearable," said Moore, 64, who said he has diabetes, high blood pressure and cancer.....

I was thinking, "What the hell? Like an amoeba? Damn nutcase!"

Then he continues:

"but now that we're double-bunked" -- since about 2003 -- "it's almost unbearable. Several prisoners sleep on the floor to stay cool."

I guess it's time to get off the sauce for tonight.

[Hodar]

Our military manage.

That's where 21-year-old inmate Timothy Joe Souders died of dehydration after he was shackled to a cement bed for most of four days during a heat wave last August.

Our military have access to water. There is an engineering specialty devoted to keeping fresh water available.

[CindyDawg]

He wasn't given water?

[RunningWolf]

Well jail should always be jail.

But when a 21-year-old inmate like Timothy Joe Souders dies of dehydration shackled to a cement bed for most of a four day period during a heat wave, I think we have went over the line.

The USA is not Mexico (or worse) and if people are sentenced to 10 days, that's what they should serve, not die in captivity.

Just my 2 cents, BTW I have read of the appalling amount of people we have in jail or probation nowdays.

Something is wrong with our culture, and I have my own theory's.

Wolf

[doc1019]

Can’t do the time … don’t do the crime. Give me a break, if life is so bad in prison, clean up your act and don’t get into situations that will land you in jail.

Prisons were designed for punishment, not as a comfortable place to stay while you think up your next illegal scheme.

Had the privilege of spending 30 days in the Richland county jail, just outside of Columbia, SC back in the mid 60s Approximately 60 men stuffed into a very small cell (120’ X 120’, just a memory guess) with no ventilation (mid August) of any sort. No fans (air conditioning was a thought for the future), and the only windows were few and high up, so they were of no use. No TV or radio and showers were once a week.

Worked all day in a road gang cleaning garbage from the roadside and filling potholes.

Breakfast consisted of extremely strong coffee with tons of sugar and fried bologna, lunch was bologna sandwiches and Cool Aid. Dinner was usually some variation of chicken (occasionally bean soup).

When I left that place, the last thought in my mind was to commit another crime and possibly ending up back in that place again or any place like it.

Perhaps if we would quite pampering criminals and put them in more demanding conditions (like the one I experienced), they would be less inclined to return to a life of crime … I know that my experience with the penal system (of the bad old days) cured me for life.