Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year ago‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmateswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1565arrow-down18cross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmit.online
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minus-squareMyxomatosis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up50arrow-down1·1 year 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-down3·1 year agoGhandi was pretty fucked up, and we probably shouldn’t be quoting the guy.
minus-squareSuckMyWang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down55·1 year 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-up36·1 year 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-up22·1 year agoPray you’re never unjustly locked away.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agoTell that to people jailed for weed.
“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.
Tell that to people jailed for weed.