>I don't understand why Texas voters support such inhumane conditions.<p>I'm in Texas. I'm a little confused as to why you think I should care. For those wrongly convicted, I don't want them to get air-conditioning in prison... and for those correctly convicted, I'm not especially worried about making them more comfortable.<p>The entire point of punishment is the cruelty. It doesn't really work without it... it's unclear if you're quibbling over the amount of cruelty, or if you think that there exists some sort of cruelty-free punishment that the rest of us just haven't heard of.
1. Even correct convictions can later be found to be wrong. Death is irreversible and financially restituting someone's death can never benefit one wrongfully killed.<p>2. Unless death is the sentence, a sentence should not result in death. If you don't closely control and monitor when the state can do something, it increases the risk of misuse of that power by the state.<p>3. If cruelty and punishment really worked, crime would decrease over time, not increase.<p>4. The AC can be set to 75. That's not luxury but won't kill anyone with heatstroke.
The US Constitution has a whole bit about forbidding cruel and unusual punishments.
And here I was thinking that prisons should be about keeping people who can't operate in society without damaging society away from society. I mean, even better would be to find a way to help them operate in society, but apparently we're not even all at the baseline.
> For those wrongly convicted, I don't want them to get air-conditioning in prison<p>???
The user just posted<p>"Run from me, I will hurt you and I will enjoy it"<p>Which is insanely ironic, that's the exact same kind of person he'd throw in jail.
I think he meant they should be freed.
Comes down to your level of empathy I guess.<p>I think there's a basic floor for how we should treat other people, regardless of the circumstances. Things like access to food and water, shelter, etc.<p>I'm going to disagree that the point of prison (as punishment) is cruelty. It absolutely can work without it, but I'll recognize this is nuanced and there are likely those that can't be rehabilitated effectively.
Might as well make every criminal offense a capital punishment, if rehabilitation isn’t the point anymore.<p>Why even waste your money on for-profit prisons if you want the prisoners to die?
Rehabilitation has never really been the point of the US prison or even correctional system at all.<p>The fact you can serve your time, earnestly work on rehabilitating yourself, jump through all the hoops, etc. but still be under the economic death sentence more or less summarizes how people feel about it.<p>It’s basically NIMBY applied to the justice system. Everyone loves to pretend they want rehabilitation but also wants someone else to do it. This shows up in hiring, apartment leasing, social benefits, etc.
This guy doesn't want them to die, he wants them to suffer.
> The entire point of punishment is the cruelty<p>Jesus fucking Christ
The point of imprisonment is cruelty? Many would disagree. I can think of a few other reasons for it...
All fun and games until is you in the prison.<p>Maybe start here <a href="https://innocenceproject.org/" rel="nofollow">https://innocenceproject.org/</a> before you let everyone around here see how much of a sociopath you are.