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zamadatix • today at 5:09 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Director Lumpkin should be criminally responsible for these conditions and deaths he has been indifferent to.


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0xDEAFBEAD • today at 5:22 PM

"TDCJ has acknowledged that at least 23 people died from heat-related causes in its facilities between 1998 and 2012 — a likely underestimate, Pitman wrote in his order last year. Inmate advocates say at least 10 additional deaths between 2022 and 2025 can be attributed to the high temperatures, including three people whose autopsy reports reference heat as a possible contributing factor."

(from OP)

Meanwhile in Europe tens of thousands are dying: https://econofact.org/factbrief/fact-check-do-tens-of-thousa...

"European A/C regulations have been ruled cruel and unusual punishment by US district judge"

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Wistar • today at 5:11 PM

Such an appropriate-sounding name he has.