https://nitter.net/ACLU/status/1700204180558745917
Angola is named after the slave plantation that was in its place prior to the civil war. Guess what the majority of labor the prisoners there do is.
Is that the one where the whole town pretty much exists for the prison?
This is beyond an America moment, what the actual fuck?
I long for Balkanization, but an independent Texas would be so horrifying, that Texas needs THE US to keep it from committing the human rights violations it wants to do.
I long for Balkanization, but
Boy, do I have an answer for you!
Texas would overnight become something that would make the made up stories about DPRK look like a paradise.
across the pond
Police Minister Mark Ryan yesterday moved dozens of pages of amendments to a bill on child protection offender reporting, including allowing police watch houses and adult prisons to be used as youth detention centres.
It would override the state's Human Rights Act for the second time this year.
Both the Greens and the opposition have criticised the government for tacking on "significant" amendments to "unrelated" legislation and circumventing the parliamentary committee process.
Appearing on ABC News Breakfast on Thursday morning, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk defended the move, saying the amendments about watch houses “is not something new” and “formalises a practice that has been in place for 30 years”.
"We've been doing it for decades"
keep in mind we're still arguing whether 10 year olds can be criminally responsible, or whether you have to be 12 before we can lock you uphttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-24/qld-palaszczuk-law-changes-human-rights-watchhouses-youth-crime/102769626
apnews link:
https://apnews.com/article/angola-youths-louisiana-prison-d6dbb08e0d494a1d1808012f208e946f
In a July court filing, youth advocates argued that the state failed to provide constitutionally acceptable conditions at the facility in southeast Louisiana. The document noted youths — mostly Black males, according to the lawsuit — were held in a building that was not air conditioned. It cited weather data indicating outside heat-index values at the prison regularly surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and sometimes 130 degrees F (54 degrees C).
across the pond
He said inmates were allowed to sleep on the verandah or Roebourne regional prison.
"That happens quite a bit because people feel far more comfortable sleeping outside on the verandah than in their cells," he said.
Mr Logan said back in 2020 that the prison was designed to have maximum airflow.
"The idea of air conditioning the whole of the prison is not only quite expensive, it's also very expensive. It's whether people would appreciate it because there are some people who literally don't like air conditioning."
"They just like it that way"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-17/human-right-challenge-no-air-conditioning-roebourne-prison/100761350
I am in agreement on the sentiment expressed here but can you tell us why you haven't yet drug people out into the streets and beaten them @Posadas@hexbear.net ?
instead of taking it literally as an individual challenge think of it as lamenting the lack of a social formation that can do something besides pursue profit
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much blood shed it might be done.”
You're right. We should take the high road and solve problems with our words. I heard that worked really well with the Nazis
The civilized thing to do is let a slave labor camp operate under the guise of liberal criminal justice for a couple hundred years and then maybe nicely ask if a judge could put a moratorium on imprisoning children there, despite them having done so for all those decades.
Incivility is when you change bad things so that generations of people aren't robbed of their lives, albeit at the expense of a few dozen slavers who profit immensely from it.
Something something utility.
I'm going to debate jackbooted thugs that kill and torture kids to stop doing that, brb
you say that, but have you ever considered that in the vast majority of cases pee pee poo poo?
Way to denounce uncivilized behavior by calling for... more uncivilized behavior.
I honestly think you have a point here, unlike these other Hexbear tankies, sorry for their behaviour. This is why I think it's wrong for Ukraine to fight back against Russia, too - it's fighting incivility with more incivility. It's also why I didn't support the Hong Kong protestors fighting the Chinese government, because that was really very uncivil, they should have petitioned against them peacefully.
