Prison Heat: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2021
- John Oliver explains how the failure to air-condition prisons can cause both physical and mental health issues for incarcerated people, and why the solution is simpler than you might think.
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Not-so-controversial opinion here: I feel like an overuse of the “I do not know” response in depositions/testimony should be viable grounds to remove authority figures as proof of incompetence and negligence.
Exactly. This guy should not be doing that job, and same goes to all the other people in positions of power who behave that way.
Yeah man wtf is the point of courtroom or congressional hearings when this is all we get out of most of them these days.
Q: Why do you think we should keep you in charge after you showed that you don't know anything?
A:
@@ichijofestival2576 Yup. I feel like he is trying to plead the fifth but forgot which (or doesn't know which, ahaha) amendment protects against self-incrimination.
Yes. If you are so incompetent that you do not know anything about the operation you are running or the people who are forced to take part in it, then you shouldn't be running it.
"Just don't commit a crime." There are people in prison who are innocent because could not afford adequate representation or were forced into a plea bargain.
That's not true they where guilty of not being rich or white enough.
This is what most republicans actually believe.
To be clear i'm not one of them.
Everyone is innocent in prison.
@@MrThe1234guy ???
@@MrThe1234guy Certainly not. But everyone deserves a chance to better their lives, or prove innocence IF that is the case, or simply not to die because of negligect by their jailors.
@@LisaWatsonFilm That is what they say on the inside anyways.
Ex-Texas prison guard here. Yes, Texas prison's are the worst. They are literally concentration camps. I actually left after due to the conditions and couldn't be apart of that type of in-humane acts. Also my dad is in prison in Texas who also has many medical conditions, some caused by the stress of the environment. Every summer i expect a phone call from my mom telling me my dad has died due to heat stroke because they don't have any type of air conditioning. I also worked at a for profit prison in Oklahoma, the only air conditioning they had was in areas where officers were at, none of the housing areas where the inmates were had any type of air conditioning. The US is as bad as Russia when it comes to prisons.
only that you can‘t get heat strokes in Russian prisons
@@mr.mad.-461 More like... you'll be lucky to JUST get hypothermia in Russian prisons
Siberian Gulags doesn't need AC
@@mr.mad.-461 try summer in Moscow, can get pretty hot there as well
Wasn't that recent picture with a prison guard ridding armed, on a horse near a group of black detainees in chains (with shovels, i think) from Texas? Tittle of the article "in some places in US, slavery still exists" or something akin to that.
“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
@V P Criminal lobby?! hahahahahaha Jesus. Treating HUMANS with HUMANITY is not supporting criminal. What a dense thing to say.
@V P wasn’t Jesus supposed to love everyone?
@V P why would a Jew love only Christians? Seems weird.
@V P there are better works of fiction I’d rather dedicate my time to. Plus, the Bible was written by multiple people and corrupted by kings and millennia. You’re gonna rely on that when people today can’t even agree on reality even when the stuff is on film and happened relatively recently?
That's an argument for the death penalty if I ever heard one.
Privately owned prisons should be done away with immediately and should have never been created in the first place. If a state or federal court sentences a person to prison then that state or federal gov't is responsible for operating that prison with no profit motive involved. A profit driven prison is by definition going to cut every corner possible to maximize profits at the expense of prisoners health and alot of times their lives
Public prisons have a profit motivation as well. That's where school desks and license plates come from in most cases.
I'd still rather they make desks and license plates while being treated like human beings.
But they aren't being treated like human beings. They're being treated just as poorly as in private prisons.
Private prisons have a profit motive to keep prisoners complacent, because anger, violent prisoners can increase costs.
USA Inc. have deep enough pockets and republican lawmaker friends and then one can torture for profit.
“Are there prisoners in your prison?”
“I do not know”
Substitute the word “care” for “know” and you have the real answer.
I don't know why but I read this as "Are there prisoners in your basement?"
@@Kruhee Well, we know how he'd answer that, "I do not know"
That man is a real piece of sh!t who should not be given control over a pet dog much less a facility filled with human beings, because as you say he doesn’t give a sh!t about the lives of anyone except himself if that is his answer to those questions.
@@LeoDragon34 honestly this can be said about any manager/business owner who holds the same feelings as that man.
@Anal Farmer you didn’t listen to any of the video, did you? Because incarceration in prison is their punishment, not being roasted alive. And you think you never do anything illegal? Are you sure about that? Because there are some pretty dumb laws out there. How about this one - in Mississippi, if you’re a parent to two illegitimate children, you will go to jail for at least one month. Or how about in Nevada, where sex toys are illegal? Or New Hampshire, where it is illegal to collect and carry away seaweed at the beach, but only at night? There are plenty of people in prisons who probably considered their crimes to be insignificant, but now they’re being treated as sub-human. As a species, we need to be better than that.
I want to know how his wife felt when she heard him say that her medical emergency might be "bad chili."
Well i guess the guy doesn't get to love very long with an attitude like that. But hey, i do not know for sure
LOL!
I automatically assume no worse than from the regular beatings he gives her, since we've been given a feel for his basic level of consideration and empathy.
She'd probably want to die of a heart attack if she was married to that thing
I do not know
Me, clicking on a LWT video: "Make me depressed."
Me , after 13 minutes: "Thank you"
Not really how depression works
@@NicoleKe feeling depressed and suffering from depression has two diffent meanings
What is "LWT?"
"I do not know" guy's wife should really be looking into a divorce right about now.
Show a little respect. His wife died. It was either a heart attack or bad gas... we do not know.
Why do I already start to get angry at humanity just by looking at the name of John Oliver's episodes?
Wanda Jo is awesome though
Wedding would've been interesting:
Priest: "Do you take this woman?"
Him: "I do not know."
Let's be honest, he didn't marry a smart woman. After all, she did marry him
Ending for profit prisons would be a big step in solving this problem.
Nobody should profit from someone's punishment. It's obscene.
I agree and that is why you need to email your senators telling them what they need to do and why. If possible give a few good sources. If they are at least a little bit rational, you might convince them.
@@alexandertownsend3291 I know my Congressional representatives and they hear from me.
Unfortunately, in in a southern, red state.
@@taylordani11 Here let me help. As someone who, I am guessing, is not on the right, you are going to need to use their own language against them to convice them of what you want. Find out what words conservatives are most comfortable with. If they see you using a lot of "radical leftist antifa"
rhetoric as they would call it, then their brains will focus on your ideology rather than your point. Put them at ease and subtly sneak past their psychological defenses. Master switching between "left speak" and "right speak".
13th amendment says otherwise. Those men are slaves.
@@JarthenGreenmeadow That just makes it legally permissible, that doesn't mean it is morally permissible.
Fast food worker here, I've had it hammered into me over and over again by training videos that if I don't know if something is safe or ok, then I should assume that it isn't. One would expect a prison warden to be held to higher standards of safety and organization then the guy who takes your order at the drive through.
The interviewer should have asked him, "How did a man such as yourself, who does not know anything become Warden of this prison"? And DARE him to answer "I do not know"
In Texas, it’s not what you know but who you know
“Incarceration is their punishment, not getting cooked to death.” That’s really good.
If you've committed a heinous crime against a child, I can easily waive this. But to everyone else, 100%.
Yep, exactly. That should be the go-to argument for any debate about treating prisoners humanely. The fact that they're there is their punishment, that's it.
@@MIDA-Multi-Tool I've even seen this in those Norwegian prisons that look nicer than some apartments here in the US. They say that yeah sure they can watch DVDs and have a nice bed and stuff like that but it's still awful being there cause you're still in prison and can't see your family and friends or, you know, have freedom
@@Real28 Only heinous crimes against children? Seems very specific. Why not a terrorist who blows up dozens of people? Or someone who abuses and kills animals? Or someone who beats up old people for fun? Or someone who kidnaps and tortures disabled people? Hmm... now that I think of it, it seems like there's a LOT of really horrible things people can do and go to jail for. Do you think maybe we shouldn't let vengeance fuel our justice system and just treat all of them humanely, even if maybe they don't deserve it?
@10m30 Did you even read what I said? Because that was literally my entire point. It doesn't matter how hard it is to feel sympathetic, we can't let emotions dictate legislation. Treating people humanely and equally is a fucking cornerstone of this nation.
Btw you're literally using the exact same arguments as the people in the video. "Fuck em, they're prisoners. Who cares."
"If you can't do the time, don't do the crime!"
Innocent people CAN and HAVE been thrown in jail due to FALSE Accusations, FALSE POSITIVES on a screening for Illegal Street Drugs, etc.
its ironic because people like him are usually criminals themselves
hehe yes and because of that small percentage of people lets spend millions to comfort all other killers, rapists and thieves. they have chosen their path hoping they wont get caught and ended up in a prison. you have chosen your path and you are not in a prison. let them fry and die.
Also lack of any social security. It's very easy to lose everything by something you aren't even responsible for and no social security means you either starve or do crime.
@@ktm640lc4BGD Thieves are at the same level as killers and rapists? Lol dude chill out
@@ktm640lc4BGD I bet you'd sing a tune if someone frauded you and you had to face prison time. Out of your hands- and under what you want- likely to have nobody believe you before you suffocate on melted lung.
1. even the worst of the worst should be treated humane because thats whats morally right.
2. innocent people who have been wrongfully convicted and those who have been rehabilitated are suffering too
Depends on how different a person is.
Ok mercedes let a rapist come live in your house or a sex offender or a serial killer just see how that works for you
I call BS on #1. Sexual violence perps and pedos can melt for all I care.
If you die in prison of heatstroke during a sentence for possession, or theft, or something in that vein, it’s basically the same as being given the death penalty.
In defense of that "I do not know" guy, he was probably coached by his lawyer to give that response in order to keep him out of prison so he doesnt die of a heart attack in a 150 degree cell due to no air-conditioning.
100% he was. He was seething. He desperately wanted to have his explosive self-righteous “you can’t handle the truth” moment and stomp all over this guy who dared question his methods. But he’s a coward who won’t back his own decisions on the record. Fvck him.
@@robertnope1993 Wouldn't you know he was also a devout Christian. Died of brain cancer tho so maybe God WAS watching.
@@utkarsh2746 yeah. I had found that. May he rot in disgrace and be remembered fondly by none.
If he already has a lawyer telling him to be evasive and protecting him from deposition, I don't think you need to defend him further.
@@robertnope1993 we should just call them "ians" cuz there ain't nothing "christ" about them.
Hmm... Heat strokes in prison seems like negligent murder and bodily harm.
Oh, how silly you are. They are prisoners, therefore not human anymore. You can't call it murder. /sarcasm
Keeping them locked up in that heat and not allowing them to relocate doesn't seem negligent. It sounds like 1st degree murder. Sorry - 151st degree murder, my bad.
Hmm, common sense would agree with you there but the GOP wouldn't!
I bet the 90's crime bill guy and his token cop girl are just itching to fix this problem.
@@HobbesHobbiton The GOP doesn't agree with common sense.
Honestly this show hasn't trained me to expect nuanced, complicated solutions. Its trained me to expect decently simple and straightforward solutions that we aren't going to do anyway because we are a broken country. Like this one, for example.
My dad has been in prison for over 10 years now and has never had air conditioning in any of the five facilities he's been in. He's mostly been in and around central and southern Missouri. I have cried at night thinking about him not being able to sleep because it gets so hot. I have had dreams about being able to give him and his bunkie an air conditioning unit. They give them ice and fans, but it is often not enough. Oh yes of course the staff at every facility has had air conditioning. They've even had gardens that the prisoners work, but can't eat what they have produced. Society as a whole doesn't give a fuck about prisoners. Until it happens to you....!
Sorry to hear that. Hope he and your family are fine. Stay safe from 🇬🇭
This is just awful. Elise, keep visiting him and keeping his head up. Hopefully visibility like this helps sooner than later.
@@XenoX106 Thanks for the well wishes, doing the best we can - sending well wishes back
@@JBob08 I visit every month! 4 more years or so to go - yes visibility like this is needed to make a difference
I was in custody for 25 years in Illinois. It is possible to make it through. Know that your visits and support are very, very important. I hope everything will be ok.
If you locked someone in a hot car as punishment... you'd go to jail for that level of cruelty.
Is this functionally any different?
@@alexandertownsend3291 No, that's the point.
If you locked an animal in a hot car, you’d go to prison for animal cruelty or abuse. So what we’re really saying is that we view prisoners, no matter who or what they may or may not have done, with less consideration than animals.
@@ScottAJacob i agree completely.
Alas, the irony is lost on lawmakers and prison wardens, and possibly other CZcams commentators
Unpopular opinion: Just once I want John to actually deep dive into one of those pointless delightful topics and listen to him talk about popsicles for 25 minutes
Well, you've got the web exclusives.
Octopuses…. It was awesome!
and cereal
Check out his Chuck E Cheese episode then!
"Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time" is total crap. The majority of prison inmates are there because of plea deals. I'm not saying that they're all innocent but the majority of them were represented by legal aid lawyers with out of control case loads. Innocent people take plea deals every single day. But regardless of innocence or guilt, NO ONE deserves to be treated with less humanity than a pig being raised for slaughter.
A substantial number aren't even convicted yet. They're awaiting trial and sentencing, and some are imprisoned or jailed for years before they even have their day in court. Kalief Browder spent two years, largely in solitary confinement, at Rikers as he awaited his trial for stealing a backpack. His story exemplifies the rule, not the exception.
I know. I was a CO for many years. Most inmates are there for non-violent crimes. Not drugs, rape, murder etc. And some of them were some of the nicest guys. I had no love for inmates that were jackasses, nasty, dangerous and so forth. But, well over 80% were not that way at all. Our Sgt felt like 'fuck them all' until his son came in. What a different tune he sang then.
I agree with you that most prisoners had public defenders and that the public defender system in a number of states has a crisis level caseload, but many people who get plea deals end up with a shorter sentence than the average American would think their crime deserves. Three years for repeated child rape, a year and a half for assault that left someone with permanent brain damage...
@@lburns7952 "drugs" is a violent crime??
@@lburns7952 How was his son treated? Probably better than every other inmate there, right?
I really wish they had sprinkled "Do you know how to run a prison?" in the questions for that warden after repeatedly saying "I do not know".
😭😭😭😂😂😂🤣🤣
😏😏
Or, You don't know much do you?....
"Do the inmates sneak out at night to fuck your wife?"
"I do not know"
That would have flummoxed the hell out of him. Why didn't they? They could have really run logical circles around that fool with his answers there.
To be fair, Texas is still trying to figure out how electricity works.
Oh, Texas has executed prisoners by the electric chair since 1924 - so even if they don't know how electricity works, they've been using it for quite a while.
@@notroll1279 I think he's referring to the power outage and Texas being on its own grid.
They do. They just don't want to be connected to the grid like other civilized states, because that takes regulation and regulation takes money. Of course when the shit hits the fan, only poor and sick will suffer. They know well what they are doing. They just don't care.
@@pearl1357 And, as we have seen, they will blame everyone else for their misfortune.
We know how electricity works, our politicians just left it in the hands of freaking ERCOT
You can see the fear in that man's eyes during the depositions.
He thinking, "I better get those I don't know just right. Don't wanna end up in prison. I DO KNOW how much that sucks."
The argument “we shouldn’t improve conditions because if they don’t like it maybe they shouldn’t have committed a crime” is absolutely ridiculous. It’s literally justifying torture. Oh if your kid hit a cop and got drawn and quartered you’d be ok with that because “it’s his own fault”.
Yeah it would be his fault i told him not to hit cops i told him it would be stupid and if he did it he gets what he deserves. I even told him Cops have jobs where every threat and action must be taken seriously and not to attack them cause they won't hesitate to take you down.
@@wolftitanreading5308 Would you be ok with the kid being waterboarded?
@@ProfAzimov no that's shitty... Unless it's those kids who did Columbine or uvalde
@@wolftitanreading5308"No, a kid shouldn't be waterboarded unless they're a mass murderer because waterboarding is shitty", but you're okay with them being drawn and quartered for punching a cop? You know being drawn and quartered is a gruesome execution method and significantly worse than a torture method like waterboarding, right?
I love how these churchgoing anti abortion wardens and politicians do not care about human life after conception
And it tickles their racism when the people suffering are mostly Black and brown
@Andy Chamberlain Music tickles their racism lmaooo💀
Those same "churchgoing" people would be the first to murder Jesus if He was alive today.
That's because they never cared about human life. They like to control other people and police them on what they should to with their lives but whenever they had to wear a mask it was a violation against their rights...hypocrites is what they are.
@@MizuRainWitch poor people are there as fodder for their war machine.
Capitalism cannot work without the poor.
As a felon. This hits close to home man. This isn't talked about enough. Much love!
I hope you're doing well now. Sending you love and strength.
Have you seen the documentary "break the cycle"? It both infuriates me about our prisons and gives me hope that there is a much better way.
Do not mess up and you don't go to con college!
@@Rusty-Shackleford69 hey, Mark. Fuck…and I mean this with all my heart…off.
@@videojamm It gave you hope?! I'd like to see it too!
I know the "I do not know" is the way to get around legal questions but you would hope someone would see that and say "well since you dont know the basic aspects of your job we will replace you with someone that does"
So you save yourself legally but at least you are punished professionally.
sadly it was probably a lawyer working to protect his bosses who coached him to answer that way...
McDonald’s cashier: “Hello sir, welcome to McDonalds, how can I help you with?”
Jeff: “I do not know”
How ironic that this Texan man claims, that the solution is simply not committing a crime and then they won’t be suffering in the heat, while he is failing to assure a humane standard in the prisons he is responsible for and this sure as hell sounds human rights violating to me aka a CRIME.
Better than being locked up in China
@@cdogg-he8ni not stealing organs is a pretty low bar for prison quality
Unfortunately you're wrong here as human rights violations are not a crime in the US, and the US does not participate in international courts for obvious reasons.
In capitalism, no lives matter..
I was thinking he should have been arrested for like accessory to murder.
I really hope that warden’s wife left him after that “bad chili” crap.
Let's be honest, she probably has the same mentality
@@Tsunami1991 nah. They don’t care until it affects them, which it is- in this case.
He's dead now, he died in 19
@@minnesotavaughn6930 hopefully he had a peaceful passing by natural causes and not by the awful heat torture he enabled. So sad someone can live a life where they have so little compassion for human life
@@minnesotavaughn6930 Yea Im reading through his obituary and he died of glioblastoma, i think one of the most agressive forms of cancer out there.
watching this right after a record-breaking heat wave that caused tons of deaths in canada is... sobering
Considering the conditions of my high school having been similar to this, that just further goes to show how if its to "prepare" you for life, you're "prepared" more for a life in prison than anything else.
Prisons, education, and health care should not be for-profit. Period.
@V P WOW, that was a really stupid answer.
@V P LOL, that was even more stupid than your previous answer.
Trump should pay income taxes. Add that to your list.
@@kyleebrock Trump is in Guantánomo Prison. Lol
@Ellie Bush I agree, but what would we have instead of prisons for people guilty of violent crime?
“Do you know what is going on in your prison?”
“I do not know.”
“Then why are you still working here?”
“I do not know.”
OMG I wanted to slap that man!!!! He needs to spend a few days inside his prison then see if it shakes his brain loose from as a$$
Spot on
@@malindabful He's dead now.😁
@@geoffreyturksmoney source?
😏Classic
Dannnng, they issued a death sentence for that poor man. While we are on this, let’s not give jail time for minor offenses. House arrest, community services or something like that.
Also, a lot people are in jail because they are poor.
Some are poor to the point of homelessness.
i am just glad John isn't in prison because he'd make those prisons a lot hotter.
he would not be the same person after being released
“Sir, do you know what a Prison is?”
“I do not know.”
Do you know that your prison is for profit?
I know that.
“Can you tell me your name?”
“I do not know.”
Technically this is what you should do if you’re brought in for questioning.
I plead the fifffffff
What a horrible human.
"Sir, are you stonewalling?"
"I do not know."
"I do not know."
"I do not know."
"I do not know."
Great, OK. You're fired.
Obviously he knows a lot about bad chilli, look at him...
😈
From what I know they already let him go, after he died of cancer.
@V P Humane conditions are not a “handout” they’re rights guaranteed by the UN/constitution
@V P That's because Jesus was a prisoner two thousand years ago and being executed on the suspicion that you're a super-wizard was customary at the time. You are clearly living in an age of barbarians if you think that's a good argument.
1:13 for those of us who use Celsius like normal people, 150 Fahrenheit is 65 degrees Celsius
As a former mail carrier who had to work outside in the heat. I had 1 week that was so hot I threw up every day. As my grandma used to say, "I feel for you but I can't reach.
Ah, a new episode of "America is dumb and Texas leads the charge" has arrived. As a Texan, this makes me feel things.
Shame?
Is it shame and a commitment to vote against Texas politicians who make inhumane decisions? Because if not I don't think the show's format is going to change too much for ya
As a Texan I say thank goodness for Florida.
It makes you feel things...okay, but what are you going to do about it?
Florida is following right behind Texas in this charge. Except Florida is stumbling around and barely keeping up.
Republicans: "We love Jesus in our state!"
Jesus: "What you do to the least of these people, you also do unto me."
Republicans: "SHUT UP, LIBERAL!"
Hey now... it’s not about following scripture. It’s about keeping our neighborhoods as insular and safe-feeling as possible. You act like Christian evangelicals are riddled with hypocrites or something. That could never happen.
It's really unfair to use this hippy-jesus, who loved theigh neighbor.
You should take the corporate Jesus, who preaches the rich are chosen by god and legal murder should be more affordable than healthcare.
This sums it up really well
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yep, he was a small non-white jewish liberal. Im sure Constantine would disagree with how many 'Christians' try to depict him nowadays xD
In my (European) country, there is a saying that if one goes to prison, he or she is "going to a cool/cold place" because many (if not most) prisons are traditionally stone buildings with 60cm walls, one is even a former castle, so it is really cooler in there during hot summers.
This is also happening in jails where people are waiting for their day in court. People who haven't even been convicted of anything.
@matt bardot I think that’s partially their point
@@cavanlyons9537 I think that's fully their point
@matt bardot Naw, if you're a convicted rapist or murderer I don't care if you're comfortable.
@@micahjohnsonboxing6409 what if you've been wrongfully convicted tho? Because that's never happened before lol
Either we are a civilized society or we are all scum. Humane treatment for all
Not everyone in prison is guilty, proven by the fact that numerous convicted persons have been exonerated after conviction. So the argument “Don’t commit a crime to stay out of prison” is a crock of shit, because some people in prison didn’t commit crimes.
Because a few are innocent doesn't negate phrases like the one you quoted. Unfortunate.... for sure. Doesn't mean we should make all the murderers and child rapist comfortable tho.
@@rawx485 I feel like you are arguing over semantics. The point is whether the person is a undeniable piece of shit or someone who has made mistakes and is trying to do better, both these people deserve basic human living conditions as per the standards of law and human dececency in the US.
@@rawx485 please google the percentage of inmates who are extreme violent/sexual offenders
you are literally advocating the point made, but in the opposite direction: torture all of them because i dont like a few of them
74% of people in jail are not yet convicted of ANYTHING, and those convicted are mostly nonviolent/minor infractions. People should NOT get roasted to death because they got a DUI or missed a court date! www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
@@rawx485 We shouldn’t be roasting them alive, either. Shouldn’t we hold ourselves to a higher standard? Besides, I’m sure your opinion would change if YOU were the one falsely imprisoned. I tend to be able to put myself in other people’s shoes.
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm very close to someone who spent 5 years inside TDCJ and they flat out confirmed everything in this video, and even freaked out upon seeing Lowry, as he was on the first unit they were on.
This is a real problem. According to my friend, TDCJ officers are infamous for Retaliation and Negligence, so even if someone is dying, they'll just wait around, kinda kick the body a bit, as Medical staff WALK across the facility to treat the inmate. But when an Officer is dying they run like the devil is on their heels.
And if you dare speak out, they will come down on you like the avenging hand of a deity.
These people devalue lives into base animals, and they need to be stopped.
That "I do not know" is like a serial killer caught red-handed answering catatonically in police interrogation to every question in order to prepare for pleading insanity.
Someones been watching JCS
@@Benhardyfan It was in my recommended videos for some reason and I actually selected from preferences in youtube not to recommend the channel to me anymore, but yeah, that's where I subconsciously picked that image up, I only now realized it when you mentioned it, lol :D
I assume it's based on advice from his legal representation... but in that case, why have the interview at all?
@@Donteatacowman I do not know.
@@Donteatacowman Because "He refused to comment" looks worse on a report than "He just said 'I don't know' a bunch." But then you get some great clips of a guy who has no explanation for anything he's responsible for.
I’d just like to add: a lot of prisons will not allow an inmate to see a doctor without payment. They need people on the outside to send them money, which the prison gets a big chunk of and part is also taken for a “victim fund” regardless of crimes committed to pay for a doctor visit. And some people in prison don’t have anyone able or willing to do that. So a prisoner literally has to pass out from heat or have a heat stroke to see a medical professional for free.
I think there was an episode about this few years ago
Its so sad :(.
It is all corrupt. The prisons need to make money. All inmates should receive free basic medical and dental care.
Yup here in Texas, they charge your account $100 dollars to see a doctor for any reason. Any family members put money on your books, they deduct all of their money first. I needed contact solution one time, said I had to see a doctor lol
Yeah, that's one of the horrid realities of the "For profit, Privatized Prison" system. We as a society have given corporations a blank check to lock people up and exploit them for profit.
Like how a packet of Ramen is $0.15 at any grocery store, but $1+ at any prison/jail commissary.
And 9/10 times, the only way to actually cook/prepare the soup is with "hot" (warm, at best) tap water. Or if an inmate it lucky enough to have one, a coffee maker can be used to heat water.
No matter how you look at it, it's really fucked up! >.
I live in Texas and literally won’t do anything outside from noon- six pm during the summer. This is literally a nightmare. Horrifying
Last Week Tonight, if you see this, this legit helped me in a serious bind. Brief period in a VA jail had me with mild heat stroke and this video is the only reason I knew what was happening or how to deal with it. Guards thought it was a joke, and then asked why I didn't call for help.
They fucking plaster the vents in those cells now. It's insane.
Thank you for potentially saving me from something far worse, LWT.
"The incarceration is their punishment. Not cooking them to death." How are these prisons even allowed to operate right now WTF
Because the state monopoly on violence is only used to protect the interests of the owning class.
That is why we criminalize poverty and have legal slave labor in this country.
The cruelty is the point.
The United States is a horrible country, and it's up to us to change that
@@LostieTrekieTechie but then any county that has the concept of ownership, should be just as cruel. They clearly aren't.
If you want to solve this, you may need to look a bit deeper than assuming it such a simple, factual problem.
Well shit. Murica just keeps getting worse isn't it~
Poor suckers
@V P are criminals people, or are they some abstract concept or zombie-like creatures, that aren't worthy of respect or compassion? I think it says a lot about a person what they choose to believe about people that did "wrong" in their eyes.
Conservative lawmakers are responsible for draconian laws and all prisons are run by conservatives. And all liberals do is sit, watch, and cry foul.
It's not the first time the US prison system runs afoul of international human rights standards. The Norwegian Supreme Court ruled over a decade ago that US prisons are such a human rights hazard that it is unconstitutional for the Norwegian state to criminally extradite anyone to the US who might end up being sentenced to prison.
Why are you comparing to Norway? In India prisons are much worse than the US. So the US is not the best and not the worst, right?
@@amitmichaeli9019 Because Norway and the US have comparable socioeconomic systems, whereas India does not. So yes, compared to a developing country, US prisons aren't "that bad", but compared to almost every other industrial/developed country, they are the first level of Dante's inferno and simply not fit for purpose.
China's Prisons Make U.S. Prisons Look Like 5-Star Hotels.
@@amitmichaeli9019 Is there such a thing as a best prison?
@@collinkeyser6827 what an amazingly stupid comment.
John, PLEASE, NEVER GO AWAY!!! Your voice is so critical when so many are prepared to look away from so much suffering and so much corruption.
Hearing the inmates talk about their medical conditions is both heartbreaking and also very impressive - shows these are feeling, erudite, human beings and very much need this help and understanding.
The greed running this country is beyond out of control.
It would be funny if it weren't so disgusting.
My brother was having serious financial troubles last year and was looking to sell his car to pay some of his medical debt. My parents decided to buy it. They just got a letter in the mail today from the IRS claiming they didn't pay enough in taxes because "The vehicle was valued higher than the purchase price."
Maybe it's just because I'm a dumb millennial, but that just sounds fucked up to me. The value of an object is determined by the seller, not some subjective number that some third-party dickhead behind some desk just decides.
These are state prisons, not fedaral.
capitalism baby, money money money. fuck all else. #usabestcountry
wish it was greed. but its not like they get to keep the money if it isnt spent on air conditioning. they get nothing out of it. its just hate.
czcams.com/video/X2htRXINJ4I/video.html. .. ..
"They're not meant to be comfortable" We're not serving them banquets, we're just giving them the minimum amount of comfort needed to live without worrying about overheating to death just for existing.
Exactly....serving people cruelty is not a good solution..
I wouldn’t call ‘the minimum conditions required for physiological survival’ comfort of any kind really
Prisoners should have conditions that allow them to keep their human dignity. That means physical and mental health, thus decent food, human contact, some sense of meaning, etc. The reason for that is also that otherwise it is hard if not impossible for them to become dignified members of society afterwards, which only makes it more likely they'll go back to committing crime. At the end of the day - for those only caring about that - that is also a lot cheaper, because you'll have less crime and less prisoners. Taking their freedom is the punishment. There's no need to add anything to that.
Bingo. How are they supposed to atone for their wrongs and learn from them, if they die? The only right answer to that question is that imprisonment in US isn't about atonement, or god forbid, rehabilitation, it's about a steady supply of slave labor.
For real. It’s pretty dangerous and dumb that people are allowed to do something that kills and endangers others, play dumb about it, and get off with zero repercussions. That wouldn’t be the case in nearly every single other profession so why do we let these schmucks get away with it.
John references quiznos and subways A LOT. Who in his writer's room is obsessed with subs and sandwiches LOL
I think John played a character in Community that had their name legally changed to "Subway" in an episode.
I don’t think lobsters deserve it either
John knows, thats why he madr the joke. The same with pigs
Pigs are both mammals and vertebrates like us, but lobsters are invertebrates.
I got curious and googled what came of that prison air-conditioning death with the "I don't know" guy. The good news is that McCollum's family did win their lawsuit, and ended up with a settlement of over $900,000.
And in a win for karma, the asshole warden literally died of cancer a few years later.
the most karmic way for him to go was to die of heatstroke, but cancer works, too, the suffering is greater and spread out longer
Thanks this makes me feel good
Maybe he should have seen a doctor earlier. I guess there is some irony to that considering the wife heart attack hypothetical. “Well, this lump could be anything. No rush.”
@@mfenn7325 "Is it bad chili doc?"
"...I do not know."
Thanks for the update. Cause I truly wished death on that dip after the first deposition clip.
Having been in jail a couple times, the point about them not installing air conditioning because they "don't give one single, solitary fuck" is exactly how they treat you on a daily basis. Asking for literally anything will get you attitude, ignored, or even extra charges.
100%. And don't expect to get treated by society any better once you come out & are deemed a felon.
Most people don't get it. In jail. Sentenced or not. You are not a human being.
@@brendonaldson8056 yup. And they don't care why you're there. They treat everyone the same. 8 was in jail for 2 days last year for owing money to a landlord, not even been charged with anything, for a fucking debt, and I had started my period, had blood on the ONE pair of pants they gave me and they refused to give me a new pair and told me I had to buy pads or tampons. So I had to borrow some pads from the other girls on the block.
@@freyjaplaysgames3293 that's a common one unfortunately. I slept in the same cell as my vomit and piss cuz they wouldn't let me use the bathroom
Good Lord, do people not understand that not everyone in prison is a murdering devil. My husband and i are helping a man who is a felon {19 years ago} that cannot get a job, vote, or be treated well because of hateful people who are just a**holes. Help people and watch them soar. treat them as people... ac, medical care, heathy food, basic care, you could make a difference .
Even a murdering devil shouldn't be cooked to death...
That was well spoken. That is not often thought of, they are still human
Legal advised him to use "I do not know" instead of "I don't care". He seems like someone who would wait and kick his wife while she laid on the floor and wait an hour to make sure she wasn't faking it. His first assumtion would likely be she was trying to escape... and likely to be right.
He was definitely a bully in high school
I wouldn't doubt that "I don't know" response was coached because it begs the question as to how this person knows ANYTHING about the job.
I agree, but to add - I don't want to be That Guy, but I think the questioning lawyer should have asked it as "if your wife were lying on the floor convulsing." No speculation, literally what was going on with that prisoner.
@@totallylooney8292 that is irrelevant because in the hypothetical you assume knowledge of the fact.
That's how hypothetical works: assume the premises to be true, no matter how unlikely, and draw logical conclusions from there.
@@mohammadzaman1225 Or maybe he's trying to strike back against bullies who tends to be criminal individuals. Justified, in that case.
Cash a bad check. Sentencing?
Death by heat stroke.
Yea... seems reasonable.
or to quote a movie "death by excile"
Even if they are prisoners ...keeping them in inhumane conditions is unethical...:(
Stealing involves a RISK of death of a victim (eg., a clerk got fired because of bad check and then suicided). Kind of appropriate that punishment would also have a RISK of death of a criminal.
@@watcherit1311 Oh fuck of. Me laying of some of my employees should therefore also come with a risk of getting killed since my employees could suicide. Oh and while we're at it, me not visiting the new restaurant in town should also come with a chance of legally getting axe-murdered by the owner since I'm threatening his livelihood by not buying from him. EVERYTHING you do, legal or not, has the risk of harming someone else. I could give my friend a glass of water while telling a joke and he could choke and die on the water.
@@watcherit1311 the Clerk wouldn't get fired for a bad check. 1. They don't deposit the checks. 2. They have no way of knowing its a bad check.
This is so true. I worked for 18 years as a CO at a very large county jail. You could actually see the inmates chests struggling to get air as they laid on their bunks it was so hot in summer. And I live in a northern state. Plus, as employees we would get very sick. Not a day went by without someone a guard or inmate having some heat related medical issue.
"I like pigs, they're like fat dogs you can eat at christmas"... I laugh so hard every time I hear that.
Texas: cooks prisoners to death
Also Texas: why aren’t these prisoners getting rehabilitated?
Also Texas. DERRRRRRZ
Also the largest population of "pro-life" fanatics. Oh, but that's only for fetuses, screw the rest of the population.
gaslighting as usual
Apparently Texas let regular citizens free to death as well....
@@slinkyscrap
_Exactly._ All of these "Pro-Life" fanatics only care about controlling women, *not* saving actual lives.
When you have been sentenced to any amount of time, the state or nation has also made a promise to keep you in health.
You were sentenced to a certain amount of time, not death-by-anything-we-can-throw-at-you.
But how can prisons make a profit if they burn money on the wellbeing of their inmates? Just think of the wardens, how can they afford a multimillion dollar estate _and_ air conditioning?😱
/sarcasm
@@HobbesHobbiton That`s the best part, it`s not even about money. They literally spent almost twice the cost of AC on lawsuits...Installing the AC would do wonders for their image, AND save them a lot of money, that could be stuffed in their pockets. But no...
@@pedrogaraj6380 the point is if you don't want to have a shitty prison experience, dont go off and commit crime
@@konigstiger3252 Do you know something called empathy? People don't stop being humans as soon as they commit a crime. First, it's not about having a great prison experience, it's about having their basic human needs met and basic human right respected.
Second, why couldn't they have a great prison experience? The punishment is having your freedom taken away from you and being isolated from society, nothing stipulate that you should be treated like garbage. Don't you think being isolated from your loved ones and having no control over your life is enough of a punishment already?
@@Laezar1 human right for criminals? Wtf? What about justice the murdered, the violated and the abused, and what of their right to live liberty and pursuit of happniess? While the suffering of criminals can't bring back the death or erase horrible memory, it can at least serve as deterrent for other to commit the same crime.
2:52 I f*cking love this guy. Like genuine affection.
10:44 Interviewer; "Do you suspect that you're a heartless jackass?"
Prison Warden; "I do not know".
"How the hell did you get this job?"
"I do not know."
“Can you explain the concept of human decency?”
“I do not know.”
"Honey, stop convulsing for a minute and pull yourself together! Did you eat the chili?! Because I just had some and am starting to worry!"
"Can you tell me if you're having a heart attack? I'm not calling 911 unless I know for sure that you're having a heart attack. Hmm, she stopped moving. Well, I don't have any proof that she had a heart attack, so I'll just let her rest and see if she feels better later."
"What's wrong?"
"Bring him some water!"
"Water my ass! Bring him some pepto bismol!!!"
"Waitress, waitress! What did he order?!"
"Oh, he had the special."
"The special! That's what I ordered! Change my order to the soup."
"Good move."
@@jeffs6090 Check please!!!
Lol. Here I’m Australia where it’s over 100 degrees for over half the year, prisons are air conditioned ,
Once again, the core issue is the dehumanisation of criminals.
American prisons exists to make money. installing AC would cost money, therefore it won't be installed. that's basic logic.
It’s not just installation, running air conditioning systems cost quite of bit in electricity and maintenance. They know this and instead choose to torture inmates.
@@jthawks4040 also expensive maintenance isn’t really the US government’s forte
Heh.. it's pretty anti-life if you ask me
If you don't want to roast in prison then don't commit crimes. Pretty simple.
Yeah why spend money having AC to keep the prison slave labor from dying when its more profitable to keep them in deadly condition till they die and then replace them with someone else
Summer fun: heat strokes and prison, welcome to Last Week Tonight
Well, you chose to be here... except you probably didn't because youtube will shove this video without lube into every autoplay queue in the world.
@@mikek9297 kiss me Paba! 😘
@@mikek9297 Wouldn't it be better to simultaneously punish AND rehabilitate people in prison so there are far fewer repeat offenders? When there is no rehabilitation, a return trip is almost a guarantee. What is the ideal situation for someone who's just been released from prison? There is no way you can disagree that society benefits when the recidivism rate plunges/is kept low or non-existent. Isn't THAT at least half of the reasons why we have prisons in the first place?
@@B_Bodziak: That's the dream. The reality is that right-wingers get off on punishment, so they actually prefer it when offenders repeat. It also lets them think that they're not alone, that there's people just as loathsome as they are.
@@B_Bodziak a lot of recidivism comes from the fact the punishment never truly ends. The vast majority of employers will not hire you if you have been to prison, caring little if the reason is "I murdered my partner" or "I had one excess gram of an otherwise legal drug". When the options are dying in the streets because you have no way to afford housing, food and bills, or committing a crime so that you can have at least free housing (shared with eight other people and then two hundred more in common rooms) and food (that is shit and subnitritious) and no bills to pay (while lacking anything to fence you from temperatures hot or cold), even if they treat you like a subhuman... would you really blame people to prefer this horrible life than forced homelessness?
Oh, and to add to the point about the heating (or lack thereof) in Texas prisons, keep in mind that our power grid is still screwed up and ERCOT (the same people that shut off our power during a blizzard, leading to at LEAST 151 deaths but probably more) is now saying they are unequipped to handle everyone that has AC in Texas using it all at once. When it gets this hot every freaking summer and they are absolutely aware of that. So imagine what happens when they finally do get AC in the prisons (let's hope), but then ERCOT turns off the power for half the freaking state anyway. Yeah. It's a nightmare. We really need to fix our grid.
When you can prove that someone lies to a judge or in a deposition saying "I don't know" like this bastard or Bill barr, why isn't that a felony?
It is, its called false testimony
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
@Finn MacCool this is a very stupid answer.
@Finn MacCool wtf deos any or this have to do with democrats the us is currently VIOLATING THE UN CHARTER FOR PRISONS You know who fufills it fuckin yemen a country currently at fucking war none of this has to do with dems and whatever fuck up they may make its just sad that the us cannot do the bear minimum
@Finn MacCool And yet the top 10 states with the most violent crime are all consistently republican controlled. and violent crime has actually been on a consistent downward trend since the early 90's... until a bump when trump's campaign started. even after a slightly recovery since, 2019's violent crime rate is still up compared to the lowest rate of the last 3 decades in 2014.
@Finn MacCool or you could just look these things up yourself with a 3 second google search and see that I'm telling the truth.
But you wont. Because you'd rather believe the lies of the fox news cinematic universe that you've been spoon fed your entire life.
@Finn MacCool if people reoffend is usually because the prison system makes no attemp to rehabilitate anyone, and actually does the opposite. The leading reason for recidivism is the inability to integrate back into society, mostly due to not finding employment. Our laws make it almost impossible to find work after prison. Blame one party if you like, but that is childish nonsense, the truth is nuanced.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
So true
Air conditioing causes global warming, do you want everyone to die? Are you okay with muredering everyone? Okay then.
@@1Redsaphir1 So you would rather have the prisoners die?
@@1Redsaphir1 Cmon man, you can troll better than that. That's just lazy.
Wow, this one is going off the rails quite nicely!
that questioning was literally just "is it possible for things to happen?" "i do not know"
The horrors of our country really make me sad
Fun fact: Back in 2020, a UK judge refused to sign off on the extradition of Julian Assange because American prisons were deemed too inhumane.
For real? Omg. Yup, just saw the link of Guardian news.
@@LeonardLuzon that was really big news back then but it's not over, the DoJ is appealing the decision.
@@adrielsebastian5216 Oh I would really like to read that appeal.
America: Aaah no sir, our prisons are not inhuman.
UK: Your prisons are hot enough to cook an egg.
America: Only in summer.
UK: ._.
And I would not be the least surprised if that judge cited Americans’ tolerance and encouragement of prison rape as “just what you get if you possibly could steal my stuff.”
Does that mean Julian Assange will be released?
"Is your wife looking into divorce right now?"
"I do not know"
She won't be able to after she eats tonight's chili, sounds like…
Well, I have her papers right now….
I dO nOt KnoW
"Is this CZcams comment worthy of likes?"
"I do not know"
@@kourii Am I going to hell for laughing at that? I do not know 😂
@@kourii Is this the best reply ever?
*YES*
Just saying, I work in a hospital with no AC. During one heat wave, we had to turn all the lights off and close all the curtains to try to keep the temperature livable for sick patients. We then applauded when an initiative passed to have industrial-style fans placed in the corridor.
My Dad has been in an Alabama prison the last 5 or so years with no air conditioning and barely any heat during the winter so they sweat the whole summer and can see their breath indoors during the winter
I'll be blunt: If people are willing to believe, or even _advocate,_ that prisoners don't deserve basic living conditions solely on the fact that they are prisoners, then drop the formality; just make every prison sentence a life sentence. After all, if people are going to die of preventable circumstances before they ever finish their sentences, and the justice system is _somehow okay_ with this, then they might as well stop pretending and just say what they're thinking.
Just execute every criminal. That's clearly what they want to do anyways.
Cool post dude get a life
@@leahsander5490 just shot them at the spot when you see them do anything.
its an easy solution and some police man are already really good at it.
maybe they also have a better track record of getting the right people, than the justice system with the death penalty.
@@sainty1912 useless comment. Just read what's often written under videos from police activity or active self protection etc. You'll be surprised what garbage people write. It's terrible.
Why spend money feeding and housing them till the end of time? Just use lethal injection or electric chair or whatever is in vogue in the US.
Keeping in mind that lots of people are in jail because they couldnt afford bail money. For minor infarctions. Like parking tickets. Keep that in mind and just kill them for being in jail. Also remember that many people are wrongly accused and convicted by corrupt cops and DAs who withold evidence or even plant it to prove their cases. Case in point: ex-DA Carlos Vega.
"don't commit crimes"
Same people that allow false incarcerations
The same people who demand a minimum of people arrested for drug offenses
The same people who encourage the poor to stay poor despite knowing in every nation poverty = higher increase of criminal activity as a necessity of survival.
So everyone is guilty except the criminal? The basis of the new Socialism..
@@amitmichaeli9019
Oh so I see you can't read.
Criminals are guilty but most often for non violent victimless crimes as a result of necessity for survival.
The people who keep that system are more guilty than those who fall victim of it.
@@alexandrahenderson4368 Where did you get that statistic?
@@amitmichaeli9019 what statistic? Again you can't read because there are no numbers
@@alexandrahenderson4368 Actually, you can't make a case because there are no numbers. I can read what you wrote, its just utter nonsense... Give numbers or give up.
People need to be treated w love, compassion and respect
and air conditioning
I want to weigh in on this matter, as in 2013, I worked in a local men's youth prison in central NJ. Built circa 1970, this entire facility (all but the offices on second floor) was devoid of AC. So, as a maintenance worker, I shared in the misery of working side-by-side prisoners housed in this hot boxes during broiling summer days. In fact, my work shop consistently reached 85° standing directly in front of fans. I remember being out in the yard fixing a broken gate lock and hearing the prisoners lamenting about how unbearable the heat was in their cells. It broke my heart.
That man endured cruel and unusual punishment and died for writing a bad check?! Jesus.
Welcome to America where at least we know we're free.*
*The above freedom may not apply to you. Exclusions may apply. Actual freedom may vary.
@@Riasiru Side effects may include but are not limited to:
Excessive sweating, verbal diarrhea, inability to answer simple questions and hypocritical greedy obsessions with capitalist institutions, see your doctor for strings of tax evasion lasting more than four years, made in china
@@Riasiru where the Supreme Court?!?!🦗
@@mohamedsaid9416
In the pockets of rich donors.
I do not know
"Should a competent supervisor know the answers to these questions?"
" I don't know. "
THAT says a lot.
The indifference or even outright acceptance by the public of how prisoners are treated really highlights how many people are totally fine with torture.
Even the vilest and evilest criminals alive don't deserve to be subjected to such inhumane treatment. I would not want my worst enemy to meet such a horrible fate, and you can quote me on that.
“It could be just bad chili.”
*Has flashbacks to the Alex Jones lawsuit.*
That chili is a false flag. 😃
"It could be just _____" 🤷♂️
When he forgot his kids name?! Lmao
Both from Texas....what are they putting in the chili there?
@@eddietruett the prisoners that die of heat stroke obviously.
I was in the feds, in Massachusetts. The prison had AC, because it was a medical center, I think. But the low security "camp" was basically a cheap metal warehouse. Big ass fans in the hot hot summer. Very uncomfortable. I am also an electrician, and can verify that the cost of air conditioning for one of those warehouses would not be super cost prohibitive. And now with solar, after the solar install, the summer sun could pay for the AC power in its own. This was 8 years ago, not sure how it is now
Also no ones asking to chill the place down to 60 degrees just that we keep temperatures safe and not like living in a frying pan left out in the sun.
@@OpiatesAndTits 75 is better than 95
Probably much worse
Workers rights is a joke in America, our delivery vans go up to 120 degrees in the summer sun. I’m not joking.
@@angelgjr1999 Absolutely horrible... A friend told me that there is Implied Overtime Expectancy at a lot of workplaces, and you'd be punished for refusing to do them, not sure if it's true though, but it wouldn't supprise me.
The prison I was at had ac, but only in the tv rooms, guess where we sleep... not in the damn tv room. Also, when we were on knockdown because the CO found a phone, we were banned from the tv rooms and confined to our rooms. A cell phone only owned by one person, but because they couldn't pin it on anybody, we all got punished. I was in a therapeutic facility at a low. Majority of us are non violent offenders, majority of us just struggling with addiction
Hope you're doing okay and staying clean. No one deserves to suffer like that.