re: Angola Inmates File Lawsuit Over "Dangerous" Conditions

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Not everyone in Angola is a violent felon.

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How many are there for non-violent offenses? You don’t know or otherwise you wouldn’t have asked me. Without even looking, I’d wager it’s the overwhelming majority of prisoners incarcerated there.

The percentages don’t matter to your contrarian logic anyway, because you feel sorry for everyone there and don’t think they should have to perform hard labor, regardless of what crimes they committed to get there.

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So a guy doing two years in minimum is moved for no reason to a max?

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Wow! So much wrong in this thread. DOC doesn’t really have max or min prisons. They have different levels of security at all facilities. Guys will move around as they get different jobs, reach different levels, and they move guys around so they don’t become too familiar with an area. That includes moving them from Angola to Hunt to Wade and moving them from Camp A to Camp C, etc.

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they volunteer to work vs being inside

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They don’t really volunteer. They are assigned to work the fields. That’s usually where they start and move up to other jobs like tier walker, janitor, custodian, painter, cook, etc.
But yes, most prefer to work in the field and make some money instead of being inside with no money and no upward mobility.

Gangs you say?

Sounds mostly peaceful.

If you really want to control that place, you should air condition half of it.

Well for one the 8th Amendment speaks on “cruel and unusual punishment” and was ratified in 1791.

I’d refer you to the case Wilson v. Seiter, 501 U.S. 294, where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a defendant charging cruel and unusual punishment as a result of his prison conditions must prove a culpable state of mind on the part of prison officials.

The Court maintained that deliberate indifference is the appropriate mental standard to apply to eighth amendment cases.

Intelligent people should understand that the US constitution does not “mandate comfortable prisons, and only those deprivations denying the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities are sufficiently grave to form the basis of an 8th Amendment violation” Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 69 L. Ed. 2d 59, 101 S. Ct. 2392 (1981).

You show yourself an idiot if you believe the courts only have revisionist history.

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They volunteer to work fields while an armed guard on horseback points a rifle at them?

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Actually, yes. It gets them outside and gives them something to do.

However, they are still humans and have a human right to safety while working and while in the jail. If it’s 100+ degrees, whether inside or outside (actually both at Angola), then water and rest time should be mandatory. You can’t kill them.

Oh thank God you're fine with facts!

No shite! Man your dissertation will clearly be impressive!

It’s not even worth it. I forgot that the majority of posters here already know everything. And if you encounter something you don’t know, a ten minute google search will make you an expert.