Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months ago‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmateswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1536arrow-down16cross-posted to: texas@lemmy.worldaiop@lemmy.world
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minus-squareMyxomatosis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up50arrow-down1·3 months ago“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” - Gandhi
minus-squareLucidlethargy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·3 months agoGhandi was pretty fucked up, and we probably shouldn’t be quoting the guy.
minus-squareSuckMyWang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down52·3 months 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-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·3 months 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-squareSaltySalamander@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up22·3 months agoPray you’re never unjustly locked away.
“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.
Yeah, like the nukes
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A criminal is basically someone who wronged or oppressed someone else. I wouldn’t consider them vulnerable. Still a shitty way to treat prisoners
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.
Pray you’re never unjustly locked away.