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[Houston Chronicle] How the Texas heat wave is affecting prisoners, 70 percent of whom don't have A/C (archive.is)

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More than two-thirds of Texas inmates are serving their time without air conditioning as temperatures across the state consistently reach triple digits this summer. Their living and working conditions, under these circumstances, put them at risk of heat-related illness and in the worst cases, death.

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[–] Tilted 8 points 2 years ago

This is crazy. I think there was already a number of deaths reported (https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/28/texas-prisons-heat-deaths/)