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Tuesday began a multi-day hearing in a lawsuit that seeks to force Texas to fully air condition a prison system that houses more than 130,000 inmates, but has full AC in only about
Forty-nine facilities have partial air conditioning, 30 have full air conditioning, and 21 have none. “If they’ve added 3,000 [cooled] beds, but they house 120,000 people, that’s a drop in ...
The Wallace Pack Unit (P1) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison in unincorporated Grimes County, Texas, [1] 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Navasota. It is along Farm to Market Road 1227, [2] in proximity to Houston. [3]
Bernie Tiede, convicted of an infamous East Texas murder in 2014, has sued over the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons. (Star-Telegram file photo) File photo
The rest have partial or no air-conditioning. Inmate advocacy groups allege that temperatures inside can push above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.9 Celsius), and that the extreme heat has led to hundreds of inmate deaths in recent years. They want U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman to require Texas to maintain temperatures in prison housing ...
Texas has a budget surplus of at least $11 billion. Lawmakers and the governor have chosen not to properly fund public school districts because they didn’t get their way on school vouchers.
A U.S. Marshal on a "Con Air" flight (c. 2000) Patch of JPATS, Air Operations Division, Air Crew. The Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS), nicknamed "Con Air", [1] is a United States Marshals Service airline charged with the transportation of persons in legal custody between prisons, detention centers, courthouses, and other locations.
Gib Lewis Unit a.k.a. Lewis Unit is a Texas state prison located approximately one mile east of Woodville, Texas, United States. The prison is located on approximately 360 acres and is operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Correctional Institutions Division administered within Region I. [1]