Temperatures in Houston on Saturday and Sunday are forecast to rise into the 90s with...
In this June 25, 2015 photo, an inmate works outdoors outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville. For most of the inmates in the state's sprawling prison system, the coming heat this spring and summer will be unabated by air conditioning.With temperatures rising into the 90s and heat indexes predicted to be over 100
Jeff Edwards, an Austin-based lawyer for inmates who settled with the state prison system over excessive heat at a geriatric prison north of Houston, said regulating prison temperatures is a life-or-death matter. In that 2018 settlement with TDCJ, the state agreed to install air conditioning the Wallace Pack Unit as well as on buses that transport inmates to the facility and back.
“It’s a livable place,” Edwards said. “It's not an unbearable sauna where people's lives are in danger. It’s a prison … the quality of life for every inmate at the Pack Unit is immeasurably better.” In a statement, TDCJ spokesman Robert Hurst said the department makes certain heat mitigation efforts to keep staff and inmates safe in heat “just as Texans without air conditioning access do.”
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