Two thirds of people incarcerated in Texas’ prisons face another summer without air conditioning after lawmakers again declined to pass legislation that would mandate a timeline for installing climate ...

Another Texas summer is here, and once again, tens of thousands of people incarcerated in Texas prisons are sweltering, and some are dying, because they’re denied the necessity of air conditioning.

Countless inmates will continue languishing in sweltering temperatures because efforts to provide air conditioning throughout Texas’ prison system fell flat. Criminals go to prison to be punished. It ...

Inmates from left, Richard Hernandez, Arnulfo Ayala, and William Baucum in the Bartlett Innovation Unit in Bartlett, Texas on Nov. 21, 2024. Credit: Lorianne Willett ...