The Legislature declined to approve air conditioning for prisoners during the regular session that ended earlier this summer. Texas txlege GregAbbott TexasPrisons Heat heatwave prisons
link an increase in fatal heart failures to extreme heat. Often, it’s impossible to know if a heart attack or any other fatal event was caused by heat stroke unless the body temperature is measured at the time.click to enlargeKristie Williams cries as she speaks of her brother, 35-year-old Tommy McCullough, who died in an uncooled Texas prison last month.
Jon Anthony Southards, 36, died of unknown causes at the Estelle Unit in Huntsville on June 28. He was found unresponsive in his cell that night. The heat index outside the prison reached 116 degrees that day, according to TDCJ heat logs. “Though it may be too late for my son, Jon Anthony Southards, it is not too late for the men and women that are still serving time in these ovens,” she bellowed. “Enough is enough!”
“All those folks who say, ‘I grew up in a house with no AC,’ you didn’t grow up in a place with no ventilation, in a metal building or brick, on the fourth floor … and you couldn’t get outside,” Sherman said.
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