I Fought for Air-Conditioning in Solitary Confinement. Now I Have to Do It Againwww.austinchronicle.com/columns/2024-06-14/opinion-i-fought-for-air-conditioning-in-solitary-confinement-now-i-have-to-do-it-again/
121 sats \ 4 comments \ @SilkyNinja 2 Jul news
I read the previous op-ed by this woman, Kwaneta Harris, Incarcerated Women in Texas Need to Be Heard.
If prisoners are medically suffering in the Texas heat under the state's incarceration, is it a human rights violation by the state of Texas?
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111 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tutankhamun 2 Jul
Yes, this is a violation. The prisoner has his own treatment, which must be appropriate and guarantee his means of living inside the prison.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 2 Jul
The differences between men and women’s facilities are numerous. When the Texas Department of Criminal Justice justifies the use of solitary confinement to “keep gangs from recruiting,” incarcerated women all felt the same way: Women’s prisons don’t have gangs.
From your second link. Anyone know if this is true? Why wouldn't women form gangs when men so readily do? What explains the difference?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @SilkyNinja OP 2 Jul
I'm certainly no expert, but I remember watching the first season of Orange is the New Black. If I had to guess from what I remember, women are more likely to form alliances based on consensual sexual favors1 that look more dispersed or decentralized than gangs.

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  1. Or, to give people credit for just being people, the attributes that lead to friendships. ↩
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Gendon 2 Jul
Why
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