John Oliver discovered at the very least one place in America the place persons are usually handled worse than pigs: prisons.
In Sunday’s episode of “Final Week Tonight,” Oliver stated inmates in prisons in a few of the hottest components of the nation don’t have entry to air-con. For instance, in Texas, 75 p.c of prisons lack A/C, inflicting the warmth index inside to hit 150 levels in the summertime.
“This example is so dangerous the U.N. Committee Towards Torture has expressed specific concern about deaths from excessive warmth publicity in jail amenities in Texas,” Oliver famous. “And whilst you in all probability assumed Texas prisons had been dangerous, perhaps not ‘Worldwide Human Rights Watch Record’ dangerous.”
Oliver pointed to at least one occasion the place the pigs at a jail farm got air-con to make these amenities in step with typical swine operations.
“Look, I’m not towards pigs getting handled comfortably. I really like pigs, their springy tails, their two large ears, their silly, flat noses and their horrible eyes,” Oliver stated. “Pigs are like large, chubby canine you may eat at Christmas. I simply query prioritizing their consolation over people.”
See his full dialogue beneath:
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