Recently I was listening to a entirely incredible story by a man who was one of the Memphis Three.
If you are not official with this tale, it’s the extremely sad account of how three impoverished boys in Tennessee were wrongfully convicted of murdering several children.
They were incarcerated for nearly 20 years without real evidence to back up their indictments before being released. The entire thing is extremely heartchopping, until you realize how strong it made some of these wrongful prisoners. These tortured men were subjected to years of isolation as they sat in prison. What was most spine-chilling to me was the thought of being locked in a tiny cell with unquestionably no human contact or even an AC system. Apparently, being an isolation means that you are also at the mercy of untreated indoor air. They put these poor souls in such poor living conditions that there wasn’t so much as an air vent to supply its circulation or high-quality treated air. The rest of the prison population could at least count on an air conditioner keeping them relatively cool plus calm all morning. In isolation, but, they weren’t permitted the luxury of cool, dry air. They did not even have the form of an air conditioner to keep them business. There was no sense of time or space without the sun or any repetitive cycling of a central cooling system. The man said that these twenty years felt like a lifetime. I think I would feel the same if my AC device broke down for a single morning in my own household.