@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-21 year ago‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmateswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1567cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink50•1 year ago“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” - Gandhi
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish36•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoGhandi was pretty fucked up, and we probably shouldn’t be quoting the guy.
“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” - Gandhi
A criminal is basically someone who wronged or oppressed someone else. I wouldn’t consider them vulnerable. Still a shitty way to treat prisoners
Tell that to people jailed for weed.
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.
Ghandi was pretty fucked up, and we probably shouldn’t be quoting the guy.
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Yeah, like the nukes