Every summer, Texas prisoners and officers live and work in temperatures that regularly soar well into triple digits. More than two-thirds of the state’s 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning in most living areas, putting tens of thousands of men and women under the state’s care in increasingly dangerous conditions. Climate change is expected to bring even hotter summers.
The heat has killed prisoners and cost millions of taxpayer dollars in wrongful death and civil rights lawsuits, with a recent fatal heat stroke reported in 2018. In 2011 — a blisteringly hot summer that the state climatologist has compared to the current one — at least 10 Texas prisoners died of heat stroke, according to court reports. The death count is likely higher since scientists have found extreme heat is often overlooked as a cause of death.
This is becoming a concentration camp tier problem for anyone living in Southern climates. If these folks lived anywhere else, they’d be added to “Victims of Communism” memorials under “Gulag”.
As a Houston resident, I’m here to confirm “No A/C” / “No Heating” is just social murder.
Case in point, Texas Prisons.
This is becoming a concentration camp tier problem for anyone living in Southern climates. If these folks lived anywhere else, they’d be added to “Victims of Communism” memorials under “Gulag”.
Good to see our priorities are straight. Yeah, some lives were lost, BUT THE MONEY!