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13 Investigates found the temperature at some state prisons reached 100 degrees or more inside cells where incarcerated individuals are housed.

In 2021, Louisiana spent $2.8 million to study what it would cost to cool all of its prisons with air conditioning, but it is still waiting on results.

State’s prisons at crisis point with temperatures regularly above 115F threatening physical and mental health of inmates

Record temperatures in much of the U.S. threatening more people in prisons.

State. Rep. John Bryant, D-Dallas, led a small coalition of progressives on Thursday in supporting a new package of property tax relief measures that tops out larger than any other proposal yet.

Former correctional officers describe dangerously hot conditions in prisons without air conditioning that lead to weekly medical emergencies and severe staffing shortages.

HOUSTON — On the third day of 100-degree temperatures last week, locked without air-conditioning in a Texas prison north of Houston, Joseph Martire said he began to feel overwhelmed. His breathing grew heavy. An inmate for nearly 16 years, Martire was expecting to be released in a few weeks. But it was so hot that day, he recalled, that he wondered if he would make it that long. He was covered in sweat and felt so lightheaded that he had to brace himself against a wall. At some point, he ...

Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. took his own life last month at the Wayne Scott Unit in Fort Bend County after a long history of suicidal behavior.

Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. had been transferred from a Texas youth facility to an adult prison despite a long history of suicidal behavior. Five guards and two supervisors allegedly failed to check on him.

Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. had been transferred from a Texas youth facility to an adult prison despite a long history of suicidal behavior. Five guards and two supervisors allegedly failed to check on him.