Pressure mounts on Texas to address brutal heat crisis in prison cells
State hit by new wrongful death lawsuit by family of Jason Wilson, who died in ‘brutally hot, un-airconditioned’ cell Texas, the state with the largest prison population in the US, is coming under…
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