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Prisoners deserve air conditioning. I hope this is a sign of prisoners organizing to stand up for their rights
They might not "deserve" it but they definitely don't deserve to be slow roasted to death.
Are they not human? It's basic to have some sort of temperature control
It's basic in America but definitely not the average human experience. Most shelter is not climate controlled.
That's kinda the problem with the whole "more heatwave from global warming" thing that has been killing people all over the world.
The US can and should do better, but it's not a human right.
Should the expected experience of a person as determined by the culture in which they live be tuned to the expected experience of people in the culture in which they live, to the worst survivable experience, or to the median or mean local or global average? Should the US try to be as good as Denmark, as good as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or split the difference and call it good enough?
Genuine question: what do you define as a human right?
If I had the power we'd all live in a post scarcity utopia in the stars and all the resources of that community would be the right of all the inhabitants thereof.
My understanding of the phrase human right is an irreducible standard that all humans should be afforded. Peaceful living. Food. Shelter. Community. Learning.
The UN declaration on human rights is all in that vein.
Of course many people don't live with all the "human rights" afforded by the UN, but it's a standard that all humans should expect.
So calling climate control a human right doesn't seem to fit? Hawaii nobody has AC or a furnace, does that mean their human rights are violated? Or only if Hawaiian jails do not have climate control, because they don't get to choose?
The human right is not control of your climate: the human right is shelter and livable conditions.
Still, context matters, if it's basic where people are demanding it, it's a basic right for them, and anything else doesn't really add to the convesation.
Yeah there's tons of places where it's not a thing, poorer countries, richer colder countries (where it's gonna be hotter and their households are nowhere near prepared for heat management besides retention, which is what you don't want for the future), but this is a comment thread about American prisoners deserving what is considered basic in America-
A human rights violation is not the same as a basic rights violation. A genocide is not the same thing as an execution. Are they not human indicates this is a human right, and the discussion was then on human rights.
Despite all of that, as I explicitly stated in my comment, America can and should do better.
A prisoner does not deserve death by heat stroke, regardless of their crime. Providing sufficient ice to keep the prisoners alive is mandatory for them. Providing AC seems like a better long term solution. American justice considers it a crime for prisoners to die in custody on a date other than their execution day. They have a legal right to life.