Man dies at 27 from heat exposure at a Georgia prison, lawsuit says
Man dies at 27 from heat exposure at a Georgia prison, lawsuit says
Juan Carlos Ramirez Bibiano, an inmate at Telfair State Prison in Georgia, died of heart and lung failure after officers left him in an outdoor cell in the summer heat for five hours without water or ice, despite instructions from a warden to limit the amount of time inmates spend outdoors, a lawsui
The Georgia sun scorched the slab of concrete beneath Juan Carlos Ramirez Bibiano’s body when nurses found him in a puddle of his own excrement, vomiting, according to a complaint.
Officers left Ramirez in an outdoor cell at Telfair State Prison on July 20, 2023, for five hours without water, shade or ice, even as the outside temperature climbed to 96 degrees by the afternoon, according to a lawsuit brought by his family. That evening, the complaint says, Ramirez died of heart and lung failure caused by heat exposure. He was 27.
Ramirez’s family, including his mother, Norma Bibiano, announced a lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections on Thursday, alleging that officers’ negligent performance of their duties caused his death. The warden directed officers to check on inmates, bring them water and ice and limit their time outside, the complaint says.
The Department of Corrections reported that Ramirez died of natural causes, Jeff Filipovits, one of Norma Bibiano’s attorneys, said at a news conference in Decatur, a suburb of Atlanta.
"Killing people is against the law, unless we do it."
They've always done it via capital punishment. They're just bringing death by slow torture back... and you can always get more slaves. There's still a drug war and there are still people of color.
Georgia kills lots of poor people in prison. Heat, bedbugs, getting stabbed. Many don’t even have formal charges filed or a bond set.
It’s a red state, so nothing’s going to be done about it, except maybe move some toadies around.
I live in Georgia, can confirm. Don't go anywhere near the rural parts of this hellhole, especially if you're black or have some sort of other trait which southerners & conservatives discriminate against. Don't even think about taking weed with you in a car outside of Atlanta or Savannah. If you get arrested here, you're not going to be able to leave any time soon. And there's no laws which require compensating the wrongfully incarcerated or convicted.
If Georgia were a county, it would have the 4th highest incarceration rate in the world. Higher than El Salvador and Rwanda. The only ones that beat it are other US states (Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma).
I would also avoid Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. Not only because you might be wrongfully thrown in jail or prison, or get shot or something, but because those are just terrible places to exist in to begin with. At least Georgia has a decent amount of blue in it. Although our whitest counties bestowed upon the world Marjorie Taylor Greene and the guy who voted against making lynching a federal hate crime, so maybe it balances out. (this guy's political career has been CARTOONISHLY evil by the way, it's wild reading the Wikipedia article about him, I mean every red politician from Georgia is but it's still shocking actually reading what these people do)
Our prison system is simply a tool used by the elites of this country to propagate the enslavement of minorities.
And execution, in this case
Let's not forget cruel and unusual punishment.
Also to 'keep them in their place'
In Albany, Georgia on July 20th, 2023, the relative humidity at 94 F was 54%. As someone who's experienced dry heat vs humidity, I wanted to offer that context. Sweating just doesn't cool you down as the humidity rises.
I always heard the phrase "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" growing up when people complained about the heat. I thought it was annoying as hell to hear. I can feel the heat.
Then I lived in a place with dry heat. Holy fuck is it different. I can handle dry heat better. My electronics can't though.
96°F = 35.6°C
That's not even that hot, pretty wild you can die from whatever heat related issues he had in just 5 hours.
Pre-existing conditions maybe?
35.6°C at 80% humidity feels like 59°C
The next four days are over 74-80% humidity max in Atlanta
If they're going to say it wasn't manslaughter I'd like to see the warden volunteer for the same 5 hour ordeal.
I have a pet pig living in far better conditions.
I mean…. I think any pet is going to be treated FAR better than any inmate in the USA.
Those conditions would be illegal to put a pig in here.
So homicide then? Fuck this warden, should be behind bars.