The Texas case will not have authority over prisons in other states. But Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the ACLU ...

A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don't have air conditioning is "plainly unconstitutional." ...

At least 23 individuals died from heat-related causes ... founder of Texas Prison Community Advocates, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuits. “People don’t live when you cook them.” ...

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

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

Texas officials acknowledged that heat may have been a factor ... without working air conditioning. In Georgia, prison officials face a federal lawsuit from the family of a man who said he died ...