… Stay out of the prison.
’Cause in Texas, prisons aren’t air-conditioned.
Our front-page story Monday highlighted this annual problem.
If you were tempted to fell sorry for the inmates, don’t. A prison cell is not supposed to be a suite at the Hilton. Or even an upstairs room at a Motel 6.
If the steamy summers motivate more inmates to stay out once they get out, that’s a good thing.
If you want to feel sorry for someone, feel sorry for the folks who work at prisons. They have a tough job to begin with. From May to September, it’s even tougher.
Actually, you can feel sorry for yourself — if you pay taxes.
I predict it’s only a matter of time until some judge somewhere says the lack of air-conditioning in state prisons is cruel and unusual punishment.
And then you get to foot the bill for the retrofitting of many large prison buildings.
It will be a large bill, too. It may be so large that you have to turn off your air-conditioning every now and then to pay for it.
Now wouldn’t that be ironic?
Monday, July 06, 2009
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This also means that the large numbers of staff are working in the heat in uniforms, body protecting armor, in many cases and breathing the uncircumcised air ans sweating like a plastic shower curtain. It means every time someone sneezes, farts, coughs or waves a stinky armpit around, all the hired help has to live with it. Does that sound like the sort of working environment conducive to a healthy workplace?
The laws of the state and their own misdeeds put them there but it's a horrible work environment.
Clean air isn't a luxury, it's a health issue and air conditioning isn't a perk in this situation. Those air filters do more than keep the units running, they help keep the air cleaner.
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