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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.