Prisoners in Texas and Florida face biggest risk of increasingly deadly heat | Almost 45% of detention facilities on US mainland suffered rise in hazardous heat days between 1982 and 2020, study says

silence7@slrpnk.net · 4 months ago

Prisoners in Texas and Florida face biggest risk of increasingly deadly heat | Almost 45% of detention facilities on US mainland suffered rise in hazardous heat days between 1982 and 2020, study says

SoupBrick@yiffit.net · 4 months ago

Looks like the prison system is taking their overpopulation problems into their own hands.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 4 months ago

US prisons are incredibly deadly places even in cool areas. The right way to cut prison populations is to sharply reduce sending people there.

SoupBrick@yiffit.net · edit-2 4 months ago

Agreed. But that would decrease the profit and govt funding, so not really a viable option for them. Remember, human life is only there to profit off of.