Monday, August 26, 2013
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NO AC for Texas Inmates...Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ's pigs to get air conditioning but not prison...
Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ's pigs to get air conditioning but not prison...: Grits noticed this short item about a vendor with whom the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has contracted to build six "swine bui...
No Clean Water for Texas Inmates to DRINK....Grits for Breakfast: Prison unit short-staffed, waterworks failing, oug...
Grits for Breakfast: Prison unit short-staffed, waterworks failing, oug...: Though Texas will shutter two private prison units this month, the Connally Unit did not make it onto the closure list despite chronic staff...
Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ's pigs to get air conditioning but not prison...
Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ's pigs to get air conditioning but not prison...: Grits noticed this short item about a vendor with whom the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has contracted to build six "swine bui...
Be sure to read the comments and PAPA added this:
Here is a court ruling on HEAT killing INMATES, take that to your bank because TDCJ is going to have to pay,oops there goes your raises, they may cut the AC off to the PITS that you lay in the floor and sleep when it is so hot. Not all Inmates are quilty as several executions have proven,drummed up evidence,lies,hidden evidence,false/bribe witnesses by D.A.s and Lawyers have many wrongfully convicted for crimes they did not committ,so take that to your bank because again there goes your raises when they have to pay the Inmates for wrongful convictions, wrongful deaths...
THis was previously posted:...Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 5:08 PM
Subject: Seems some are ? the truth of this, here is a court ruling....Fw: TEXAS HEAT - 108 Yesterday in West Texas, approximately 20,000 plus TDCJ Inmates having to endure
Here is a court ruling on what is going on in Texas concerning the HEAT INDEX in TEXAS, especially in the WEST TEXAS AREA from Amarillo, Lubbock, Snyder, Abilene, Ft. Stockton, Colorado City, and those down way south close the Mexico and Texas Border, and many more, etc...I am not a ROBOT, I have been doing this work for about 25 years, I have seen, heard, read more of this stuff over and over for all these years, have had contact with many of those who have suffered tremendously due to the heat, expecially the elderly, the sick, the mentally ill, those being held in Solitary Confindment, etc.
The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that extreme heat can be a violation of prisoner rights:
"In a case involving a 64-year-old former Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate who suffered from hypertension and other medical ailments, the federal court in New Orleans held that allowing an inmate to be 'exposed to extreme temperatures can constitute a violation of the Eighth Amendment.' The case was remanded to the district court for a new trial."
Full article here: http://www.texastribune.org/texas-dept-criminal-justice/texas-department-of-criminal-justice/appeals-court-rules-heat-can-violate-prisoner-righ/?utm_source=supporter_message&utm_medium=email
It seems that our cause is not so far off of a goal after all! This is why we need to continue raising awareness and spreading the word! Change will come with the right mixture of civilian outrage and judicial wisdom.
As long as this issue remains in the news, we have more of a chance to enact change. Please continue to share our petition with family, friends, coworkers, and anyone else that may be interested in our cause. Change will not happen overnight, and we can't do this without you!
Samantha Herrington http://www.change.org/petitions/the-governor-of-tx-stop-torturing-inmates-with-130-degree-temperatures
From: People Against Prison Abuse
To:
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 7:49 PM
Subject: TEXAS HEAT - 108 Yesterday in West Texas, approximately 20,000 plus TDCJ Inmates having to endure
In the West Texas area yesterday it was 108 degrees which makes it about 120 degrees in the TDCJ Inmates Unit/Cells and more of the same today...the Inmates have to wet down their clothing, bedsheets, towels, etc. to put around them to keep cool, hopefully they "ALL" have fans where there is some breeze because the prison units do not allow any shade trees outside where the Inmates can get out of the piercing hot sunburning sunshine in Texas, this is the desert, no shade, lot of skin cancer comes due to the sunshine in this area, plus lot of eye problems due to the brightness of the sunshine...PLEASE SHOW YOU CARE...YOU ARE URGENTLY NEEDED to HELP...thank you Flo, PAPA
Be sure to read the comments and PAPA added this:
Here is a court ruling on HEAT killing INMATES, take that to your bank because TDCJ is going to have to pay,oops there goes your raises, they may cut the AC off to the PITS that you lay in the floor and sleep when it is so hot. Not all Inmates are quilty as several executions have proven,drummed up evidence,lies,hidden evidence,false/bribe witnesses by D.A.s and Lawyers have many wrongfully convicted for crimes they did not committ,so take that to your bank because again there goes your raises when they have to pay the Inmates for wrongful convictions, wrongful deaths...
THis was previously posted:...Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 5:08 PM
Subject: Seems some are ? the truth of this, here is a court ruling....Fw: TEXAS HEAT - 108 Yesterday in West Texas, approximately 20,000 plus TDCJ Inmates having to endure
Here is a court ruling on what is going on in Texas concerning the HEAT INDEX in TEXAS, especially in the WEST TEXAS AREA from Amarillo, Lubbock, Snyder, Abilene, Ft. Stockton, Colorado City, and those down way south close the Mexico and Texas Border, and many more, etc...I am not a ROBOT, I have been doing this work for about 25 years, I have seen, heard, read more of this stuff over and over for all these years, have had contact with many of those who have suffered tremendously due to the heat, expecially the elderly, the sick, the mentally ill, those being held in Solitary Confindment, etc.
The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that extreme heat can be a violation of prisoner rights:
"In a case involving a 64-year-old former Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate who suffered from hypertension and other medical ailments, the federal court in New Orleans held that allowing an inmate to be 'exposed to extreme temperatures can constitute a violation of the Eighth Amendment.' The case was remanded to the district court for a new trial."
Full article here: http://www.texastribune.org/texas-dept-criminal-justice/texas-department-of-criminal-justice/appeals-court-rules-heat-can-violate-prisoner-righ/?utm_source=supporter_message&utm_medium=email
It seems that our cause is not so far off of a goal after all! This is why we need to continue raising awareness and spreading the word! Change will come with the right mixture of civilian outrage and judicial wisdom.
As long as this issue remains in the news, we have more of a chance to enact change. Please continue to share our petition with family, friends, coworkers, and anyone else that may be interested in our cause. Change will not happen overnight, and we can't do this without you!
Samantha Herrington http://www.change.org/petitions/the-governor-of-tx-stop-torturing-inmates-with-130-degree-temperatures
From: People Against Prison Abuse
To:
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 7:49 PM
Subject: TEXAS HEAT - 108 Yesterday in West Texas, approximately 20,000 plus TDCJ Inmates having to endure
In the West Texas area yesterday it was 108 degrees which makes it about 120 degrees in the TDCJ Inmates Unit/Cells and more of the same today...the Inmates have to wet down their clothing, bedsheets, towels, etc. to put around them to keep cool, hopefully they "ALL" have fans where there is some breeze because the prison units do not allow any shade trees outside where the Inmates can get out of the piercing hot sunburning sunshine in Texas, this is the desert, no shade, lot of skin cancer comes due to the sunshine in this area, plus lot of eye problems due to the brightness of the sunshine...PLEASE SHOW YOU CARE...YOU ARE URGENTLY NEEDED to HELP...thank you Flo, PAPA
Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ's pigs to get air conditioning but not prison...while Inmates sit in over 100 degree units without cold water/ice/air conditioning
Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ's pigs to get air conditioning but not prison...: Grits noticed this short item about a vendor with whom the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has contracted to build six "swine bui...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Grits for Breakfast: 'Brady' violation resulted in directed acquittal f...
Grits for Breakfast: 'Brady' violation resulted in directed acquittal f...: The Houston Chronicle brings word of a remarkable case of prosecutors allegedly woodshedding an eyewitness and withholding exculpatory evide...
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Grits for Breakfast: Texting while judging: Judge texted assistance to ...
Grits for Breakfast: Texting while judging: Judge texted assistance to ...: The Houston Chronicle today published an update (" Ex-prosecutor admits helping judge accused of sending secret text messages ") o...
Grits for Breakfast: TX parole officers allegedly taxed parolee drug de...
Grits for Breakfast: TX parole officers allegedly taxed parolee drug de...: Depressing story of corruption out of the Houston parole office from the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward, whose story (" Parole office...
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Grits for Breakfast: On the merit of localizing national stories: Globe...
Grits for Breakfast: On the merit of localizing national stories: Globe...: The Amarillo-Globe News has a good story localizing issues raised in a national report from the US Department of Justice on sexual victimiz...
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Monday, June 24, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Grits for Breakfast: More litigation over heat in TX prisons now that 5...
Grits for Breakfast: More litigation over heat in TX prisons now that 5...: More lawsuites vx. TDCJ related to heat-related deaths, just as summer begins to warm up. I couldn't go to the Texas Civil Rights Projec...
Grits for Breakfast: Perry vetoes empower prosecutors, except for one T...
Grits for Breakfast: Perry vetoes empower prosecutors, except for one T...: Just a couple of criminal-justice related vetoes on Governor Rick Perry's 2013 list , but they were both significant. Perry vetoes onl...
Grits for Breakfast: Perry vetoes empower prosecutors, except for one T...
Grits for Breakfast: Perry vetoes empower prosecutors, except for one T...: Just a couple of criminal-justice related vetoes on Governor Rick Perry's 2013 list , but they were both significant. Perry vetoes onl...
Grits for Breakfast: Governor signs junk-science habeas bill
Grits for Breakfast: Governor signs junk-science habeas bill: Grits was particularly gratified to finally see Governor Perry has signed SB 344 by Whitmire/Turner ensuring access to the courts for habea...
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