Texas prisons must install air conditioning | Opinion
Inmates are housed in blocks at the Louie C. Powledge Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for men located in Anderson County in Palestine on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021.Each year, summer poses an increasingly cruel and unjust punishment on incarcerated Texans without access to air conditioning.This is inhumane and unacceptable.
A&M’s report, which collected stories from over 300 prisoners in collaboration with Texas Prisons Community Advocates from 2019 to 2020, further reveals the dire circumstances. While these reports are unverified, it is not too much of a stretch from what we have seen in the past from our prisons. In 2014, a class action lawsuit ruling against a unit found 2 to 4 1/2 times more arsenic, a poison, than federal regulations allowed in drinking water.
And it’s not just inmates who suffer. Prison staff endure these conditions as well as they go about their jobs. We cannot reasonably expect the historically understaffed employees of our state prisons, in addition to their normal duties, to conduct wellness checks, refill and clean water and ice coolers, monitor for heat stroke symptoms, fix fans and lead people to extra showers and respite areas while also dealing with intense heat themselves.
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