At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State’s unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune.
Even so, it’s hard to firmly establish how many have succumbed to heat-related illness, according to observers. That’s because TDCJ’s official stance is that no inmates have died of heat exhaustion since 2012 — the same year the agency began to be bombarded with wrongful death lawsuits from inmates’ families, the Tribune reports.
Wow! That’s going to save the state of Texas so much money! It’s expensive to house people against their will for enjoying forbidden plants in their own homes. 🙄
what? naw, they have to meet the quota, they’ll just arrest some other poors