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I guarantee they just lie about the cause of death.
Exactly, CoD is just heart attacks or natural causes
From the discussions I've had, most Texans want the prisons to be torture facilities.
The constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment is a joke in most of the country, but Texas takes it as a personal challenge.
I truly don’t understand why most of my fellow Texans feel that way. I’d be much more interested in a system that takes efforts to honestly rehabilitate folks, rather than simply punish them for wrongdoing.
Racism
Most people haven't spoken to anyone who's been through the prison system. They have no idea what it's like and what a good prison system looks like.
Because they believe that people end up in prison because of personal moral and character flaws, and they consider that a desirable state of affairs.
Because they're awful people.
Also says a LOT about the how the "justice" system works that cruelty is just fine as long as it's not unusual, even if that usual cruelty is literal torture.
Shit, the Constitution even says slavery is ok if it's used as a punishment. That's literally baked into the amendment they passed to outlaw slavery.
Yup! And exceptionalist dunces claim that the US saved the world from slavery 🤦
Texas state officials LYING?! SURELY an upstanding and above all honest gentleman like Abbott would never let such a thing happen!
/s
Of course they lied. And of course there's no accountability for that.
Of course they have. The cruelty is the point. They confuse justice for retribution.
Pretty sure I saw an article once (might even have been a post from a CO) saying they take any dead bodies to the ambulance before recording time of death. Artificially gives them 0 deaths in custody or something
If anyone in the US says there's been no abuse and/or neglect in a prison, fire them and sue the shit out of them.
Even if that was true just because someone isn't dead doesn't mean they're not suffering in horrible, inhumane conditions.
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