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Texas inmates soaking bedsheets in toilet water to cool off in unairconditioned prisons
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Prison is meant to rehabilitate, not punish. If you're punishing, you're not helping society. If you just care about causing pain, what value add is that?
Unfortunately, her in texas, unless you bow to the dictatorship (GOP) you are not allowed to be rehabilitated. Unless you think sitting in a pod of 24+ other prisoners in a space that might be comfortable for 4 people as a home, is rehabilitation.
Texas doesn’t care about anything but $$ to the point they will cut their nose off to spite their face. This state is so contradictory to human rights
Schadenfreude is the point, I guess
Is it? Not being sarcastic. In my country that's what prisons are supposed to be to. But does it say somewhere in the USA "law" (quotes because I'm not sure that's the proper word to use here) that states that rehabilitation is the goal of prisons?
I mean, probably not, but it's otherwise useless, plus it makes an argument for cruel and unusual punishment. Any other desire from sentencing is simply perverted in my mind.