Federal Trial Over Deadly Heat in Texas Prisons Without Air-Conditioning Begins
30 March 2026 at 17:02
Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all its prison cells.
Inmates at the Reynaldo V. Lopez State Jail Facility in cells without air conditioning amid extreme summer temperatures in Edinburg, Texas, in 2022.

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