The state of Texas has been the
subject of multiple lawsuits over its insistence on killing state
prisoners with heat stroke as they sit in jails without air
conditioning. It turns out that Texas would not even subject actual
swine to the same conditions.
A new lawsuit from the mother of a
Texas prisoner who overheated and died says that 14 Texas prisoners have
died that way since 2007 in the dozens of state prisons that lack air
conditioning in the prisoner housing areas. Summer temperatures
routinely climb over 100 degrees indoors. Now, even prison guards are
complaining. With good reason. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Union
officials said corrections officers have complained to Texas prison
officials that the heat index inside facilities is often as high as 130
degrees Fahrenheit, but haven't been able to persuade them to make
changes. They said they were driven to speak out after learning that the
state spent $750,000 in June to buy six new barns with exhaust fans and
misters to cool pigs raised for inmate consumption.
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