Lilla Dixon | Obituary | The Huntsville Item
Lilla Dixon passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the The Huntsville Item on 2023-09-04.
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Lilla Dixon passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the The Huntsville Item on 2023-09-04.
About two-thirds of the state's 100 prisons don't have air conditioning in most living areas. At least nine inmates have died in prisons without A/C.
A 35-year-old inmate died of cardiac arrest Friday morning while mowing a field at the Goree Unit in Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirmed Tuesday.
Since a heat wave gripped Texas, at least nine inmates, including two men in their 30s, have died of heart attacks or unknown causes in prisons lacking air conditioning. It’s been 11 years since the state last classified a death as heat-related.
At least four other prisoners died in hot prisons this month with undetermined causes of death.