The judge ruled Texas prison cell temperatures, which regularly exceed 90 and 100 degrees, likely violate rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

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Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.

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A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly ... deaths from multiple causes in 2023 and that prison staff and inmates sometimes fall ill from high temperatures.

Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that ... but none of the bills have received a hearing yet. “This is a federal judge saying Texas is unconstitutionally housing people ...