Opinion: The sweltering heat in this Louisiana prison put children's lives at risk
Opinion: The sweltering heat in this Louisiana prison put children's lives at risk
The extremely hot conditions at Angola and other prisons in the South amount to “cruel and unusual punishment.”
The extremely hot conditions at Angola and other prisons in the South amount to “cruel and unusual punishment.”
A Times-Picayune story about the immense heat inside prisons noted that voters in Jefferson Parish, the second-largest parish in the state, approved a new local jail in 2014 but only after leaders promised the jails wouldn’t be air-conditioned.
In other words, there are people who believe that people convicted of crimes, or merely accused of crimes, are supposed to suffer this way.
The government is subjecting people, even young people, in prison to extreme heat conditions, solitary confinement, violence and other abuses because it apparently doesn’t see such people as human. Adults sentenced to Angola have to do hard labor in the punishing sun. They are seen as the property of the state to be used as needed.
Emphasis mine. Jesus christ, people can be pure evil. I'm sure almost every one of them thinks they're a good Christian as well.