Over two-thirds of Texas' 100 prisons do not have air conditioning in their living quarters. Last month, nine people died of heart failure or unknown conditions due to the excessive heat. Texas inmates simmer in 'hell' as families push for AC in prisons:
Marci Marie Simmons worked in the fields in the Texas heat with one 3-second water break while she was serving her sentence at Lucile Plane State Jail in Dayton, northeast of Houston. But for her and the other inmates, the worst part of the day was going back to their rooms with no air conditioning.
At times, the press conference took on the feeling of a tent revival service, with minister and state Rep. Carl Sherman, D-Dallas, opening the briefing with a prayer for state politicians to address the problem in Texas prisons. Amite Dominick stands near the door of a mock prison cell set up outside the Capitol could experience prison conditions inside the cell for seven minutes amid Tuesday's heat.
A study released last year by Texas A&M found that temperatures regularly hover at about 110 degrees inside prisons during the summer and have gotten up to 149 degrees. Texas is one of 13 states without universal air conditioning in its prisons. These conditions will only get worse as climate change makes excessive heat a new normal.
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