Pleading for prisoners’ lives
For his three-part series on the dangerous heat in Texas prisons that lack air conditioning, Brant Bingamon spoke with and fielded messages from over a dozen prisoners, former prisoners, and their family members. But there are 95,000 people housed in those hot prisons and too many stories to tell. These letter excerpts represent just a few of the accounts of people who reached out in response to Brant's pieces.My husband is at the Ferguson Unit.
is definitely lying by saying heat-related illnesses aren't causing deaths to rise in summer months. At one point in my dorm it reached 124 degrees. Respite is nice, but they lie to the public saying offenders can stay as long as needed. They pushed us back into the heat.I am a former inmate and was housed there at Lane Murray in the year 2016. It was so miserable during summer, it was so hot. We lived in aluminum, like what they keep cattle in.
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