Texas inmates may keep dying without A/C in state prisons

State lawmakers refuse to act humanely by denying funding for prison air conditioning Being sentenced to a Texas prison shouldn’t amount to the death penalty.

But that’s what it may have been for hundreds of general population inmates who since 2001 may have died due to overheated state jails and prisons, according to the shocking conclusions of a recent academic study.

Yet, unconscionably, the Texas Senate refused to consider a House-approved bill that would have helped remedy this inhumane situation by providing funding to speed up installation of air conditioning systems in state lockup facilities.