For years, many Texas prisons have lacked any air conditioning. That might finally change.
In an interview with the“If you can't get any fresh air, and you can't get any breeze, you're basically baking,” Hixon says.
That said, Hixon adds she is “really hesitant to frame things in that way, because at the end of the day, the cost is not really the issue. We can't keep these people like this. It’s cruel.”prison staff, incarcerated people and their loved ones talk about what it’s like to live in an uncooled cinderblock box when the summer heat arrives.One woman, Theresa, relayed that her husband felt like he was dying in his cell.
As he was leaving the prison where he met the HVAC worker, Sherman was approached by a corrections officer who noticed him talking to incarcerated people.According to the Texas State Auditor’s Office, there was a 40.3% turnover rate for correctional officers in 2021.
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