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Rhiannon12866

(205,377 posts) Mon Jun 14, 2021, 02:34 AM Jun 2021

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Prison Heat [View all]

John Oliver explains how the failure to air-condition prisons can cause both physical and mental health issues for incarcerated people, and why the solution is simpler than you might think.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Prison Heat [View all] Rhiannon12866 Jun 2021 OP

prisons, as currently implemented, need a total reexamination rampartc Jun 2021 #1

I couldn't agree more - and especially get rid of "private" prisons Rhiannon12866 Jun 2021 #2

i did cold turkey on the alcohol rampartc Jun 2021 #3

Yikes! That can't have been easy, so glad to hear that you made it through Rhiannon12866 Jun 2021 #4

The City of Richmond's jail still isn't air conditioned as far as I know underpants Jun 2021 #5

Many of the FL prisons have no AC janterry Jun 2021 #6

That has to qualify as "cruel and unusual punishment." Rhiannon12866 Jun 2021 #9

"I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man." Primo Levi 2Gingersnaps Jun 2021 #7

Private prisons burrowowl Jun 2021 #8