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Most Texas prisoners don’t have AC access and it’s unclear when they will get it

Two thirds of people incarcerated in Texas’ prisons face another summer without air conditioning after lawmakers again declined to pass legislation that would mandate a timeline for installing climate control in state facilities.After years of promises from state officials that resulted in modest progress and a federal judge who has ruled Texas’ prison heat conditions unconstitutional but declined to force any changes, tens of thousands of people incarcerated in the state do not know if they will see air conditioning anytime soon.'During this triple digit summer, approximately 88,000 individuals in Texas prisons do not have air conditioning,' said Amite Dominick,

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