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  • May we teach our children the only thing that truly matters is how we regard the dignity of people.

    I find most successful Americans I meet are so self-obsessed they are left with an incredibly low capacity for empathy for those in lower classes than them. Wild how they think they are so different than Nazis.

    by lasky
  • The year is 2030. You are reading a breathless article on HN about how horrible Texas is for air conditioning their prisons but not their school.

    Way down at the bottom is a dead comment: "Texan here, schools are managed locally, prisons are managed at the state level"

    by cucumber3732842
  • I don't understand why Texas voters support such inhumane conditions. All these "Christians" who support this kind of cruel punishment need to have a "come to Jesus" moment, literally.
    by QuercusMax
  • The only truly endless resource is man's inhumanity to his fellow man.
    by jimbo456
  • Director Lumpkin should be criminally responsible for these conditions and deaths he has been indifferent to.
    by zamadatix
  • The US needs to get over this whole ‘punishment’ view of prison. It either a social-safety quarantine, or a rehabilitation
    by boredatoms
  • Just out of college I didn’t know what I wanted to do, so I took a job at a prison near Phoenix AZ. It was outdoors, the cells had no AC. In a 10 hour shift in 115 (46c) degree weather I would go through 1.5 gallons (5.6 liters) of water. Every single day at least one inmate would pass out from the heat. At least they got heat for the winter.

    Thankfully I left all that behind a long time ago. Though I just checked and they still don’t have AC.

    There is a fairly famous quote: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

    by MichaelNolan

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