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The courts, along with federal and state lawmakers, have created a series of barriers against improving prison conditions with air conditioning.
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Temperatures in cells often stay in the 90s for hours and can reach into the triple digits. Officials say there is no evidence the heat is killing prisoners, despite a spike in prison deaths that independent analysts attribute to the heat.
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A study published last November links 271 deaths between 2001 and 2019 to unairconditioned Texas prisons. An analysis of state data showed that a spike in the mortality rate has hit Texas prisons system-wide.
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Inmates say food melts in front of them and claim their cells' temperatures exceed 150 degrees.
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Prison researchers were shocked to learn that women in Texas Department of Criminal Justice's security detention are issued a thick white gown instead of the two-piece uniform men are issued. No official explanation was offered.
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The 78-year-old Carl Wayne Buntion died by lethal injection on Thursday for murdering Houston police officer James Irby during a traffic stop in 1990.
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From Texas Standard:The Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced Wednesday that it's locking down 15 prisons in response to the coronavirus crisis.…
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From Texas Standard:As of Friday, Dallas County had the most positive COVID-19 cases in the state, at more than 300. At least seven of those cases are in…
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Gary Ryan was less than three months away from getting out of prison — and his family was doing everything right.His brother-in-law lined up a job for him…
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Joseph Garcia was four years into a 50-year sentence for a 1996 Bexar County murder when he joined six other inmates who escaped prison, went on the run…