Last week, Democrats including San Antonio-Austin Congressman Greg Casar called on lawmakers to open an investigation into prison conditions in Texas.

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.

  • be_excellent_to_each_other
    18•10 months ago

    I love that someone always downvotes the GOP being called out as fascist but will never argue the point.

    Great thing about Kbin is you can see who that is. Just going to say I see one or two names fairly regularly.

    Edit: LOL, unsurprisingly the same guy upvoted this comment from HazDaz.