Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month ago‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmateswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: texas@lemmy.world
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minus-squareMyxomatosis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month ago“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” - Gandhi
minus-squareLucidlethargy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoGhandi was pretty fucked up, and we probably shouldn’t be quoting the guy.
minus-squareSuckMyWang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoA criminal is basically someone who wronged or oppressed someone else. I wouldn’t consider them vulnerable. Still a shitty way to treat prisoners
minus-squareSaltySalamander@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoPray you’re never unjustly locked away.
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoA prisoner is not necessarily a criminal, and a criminal has not necessarily hurt anyone. But people who are completely at the mercy of some sadistic prison guards are vulnerable as hell.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoTell that to people jailed for weed.
“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” - Gandhi
Ghandi was pretty fucked up, and we probably shouldn’t be quoting the guy.
Ok, idiot.
A criminal is basically someone who wronged or oppressed someone else. I wouldn’t consider them vulnerable. Still a shitty way to treat prisoners
Pray you’re never unjustly locked away.
A prisoner is not necessarily a criminal, and a criminal has not necessarily hurt anyone. But people who are completely at the mercy of some sadistic prison guards are vulnerable as hell.
Tell that to people jailed for weed.