Lawyer Ryota Ishigawa, who visited the Kyoto Detention House on July 25 for an on-site inspection with a colleague at the Kyoto Bar Association. Prolonged extreme summer heat has killed one prisoner and is threatening the lives of others due to a chronic lack of air conditioning at many correctional institutions.
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Putting inmates under such terrible conditions is beyond the objective of detention.
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Ricky Kaminski
Old school...
kurisupisu
Some many detainees die in detention here- who can fathom what the object of detention is here?
seadog538
No air con? Is it detention centre or a hotel?