Should Texas prisons be airconditioned ? (Houston: 2013, sex offenders, house)

[Jack Lance]

The Houston Chronicle reports (6/14/2013), that 13 inmates in Texas prisons have died of heat related illness since 2007, with heat indexes in some prison cells reaching 137 degrees. There are policies in place to restrict activity during the hottest part of the day , but no air conditioning except in visitor, and medical and of course administrative offices. Question: is this cruel and unusual punishment and should these cell blocks be cooled to some degree.

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by Jack Lance

The Houston Chronicle reports (6/14/2013), that 13 inmates in Texas prisons have died of heat related illness since 2007, with heat indexes in some prison cells reaching 137 degrees. There are policies in place to restrict activity during the hottest part of the day , but no air conditioning except in visitor, and medical and of course administrative offices. Question: is this cruel and unusual punishment and should these cell blocks be cooled to some degree.

Yes, they should be air conditioned.

[Gamewiz]

They can use fans and implement proper ventilation if need be. But AC? No. We spend too much money on criminals as it is.

Prison is punishment, not a resort. Things like AC, cable tv, etc., are luxuries. They have no business being in a prison.

[Nairobi]

Why a public poll, though?

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

Why a public poll, though?

The private polls just seem too easy to manipulate, people do have anonymity through their alias ID's don't they? Maybe I'm mistaken, but our real names and identities are not public, right? And our e-mail addresses are hidden as well...

[HtownLove]

Light a fire under their butts.

We can't pay to keep schools up to date but we can create resorts for criminals.

If the prisons get AC they should be doing hard labor to pay for their own AC.
Too much of our money already pays to house these criminals

[Metro Matt]

3 hots & a cot is all us tax payers should have to pay for.

A/C should be a privilege only to those being rehabilitated for the outside world & who have earned it.

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

3 hots & a cot is all us tax payers should have to pay for.

A/C should be a privilege only to those being rehabilitated for the outside world & who have earned it.

Many of the inmates who die, die within a few days or weeks of entering prison. Before they would have had time to establish any kind of record of rehabilitation. Many are on medications that actually make them more vulnerable to heat related illness. The prison administrators know this , according to this article, but take no steps to compensate for these vulnerabilities Is this ok?

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by Jack Lance

Many of the inmates who die, die within a few days or weeks of entering prison. Before they would have had time to establish any kind of record of rehabilitation. Many are on medications that actually make them more vulnerable to heat related illness. The prison administrators know this , according to this article, but take no steps to compensate for these vulnerabilities Is this ok?

Of course not, but, in Texas: the land of the self-righteous and inexorable...

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by Jack Lance

Many of the inmates who die, die within a few days or weeks of entering prison. Before they would have had time to establish any kind of record of rehabilitation. Many are on medications that actually make them more vulnerable to heat related illness. The prison administrators know this , according to this article, but take no steps to compensate for these vulnerabilities Is this ok?

Many inmates who are sex offenders or gang members die in prison for those reasons too.

Prisoners should have the bare necessities nothing more nothing less.

If you do for one you gotta do for all & I don't think the tax payers would go for that.