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It does not include federal prisons or county jails, nor does it include the North Texas State Hospital; though the facility houses those classified as "criminally insane" (such as Andrea Yates) the facility is under the supervision of the Texas Department of State Health Services. Facilities listed are for males unless otherwise stated.
But a November study by researchers at Brown, Boston and Harvard universities found that 13%, or 271, of the deaths that happened in Texas prisons without universal air conditioning between 2001 ...
That score was developed as a result of a lawsuit over the lack of air conditioning at a Southeast Texas prison. The lawsuit, settled in 2018, cost the state $7.2 million.
In 2018, Texas agreed to install air conditioning at a prison for older and medically vulnerable inmates. But Simmons said access to respite areas was limited to short periods of time, coolers of ice water didn't hold enough to serve an entire prison dorm, and up to 100 women would wait to use a single shower head that was changed from hot to ...
The lawsuit says the lack of air conditioning in prisons amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment." Prison reform advocates sue in federal court for air ...
Florida leads the nation in placing state prisons in the hands of private, profit-making companies. In recent years, the state has privatized the entirety of its $183 million juvenile commitment system — the nation’s third-largest, trailing only California and Texas.
Most Texas prisons lack air conditioning. At least 41 prisoners have died of heart-related or undetermined causes since the unrelenting heat wave began.
The state asked for bids from private companies, anticipating a major buildout of juvenile prisons. In 1995, Slattery won two contracts to operate facilities in Florida. The two new prisons were originally intended to house boys between 14 and 19 who had been criminally convicted as adults.