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JUDGE ORDER ALL TDC UNITS TO BE AIR CONDITIONED BY THE END OF 2029

JUDGE ORDER ALL TDC UNITS TO BE AIR CONDITIONED BY THE END OF 2029
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A federal judge has ordered the State of Texas to install air conditioning in every one of its prisons by the end of 2029, finding that leaving tens of thousands of inmates in uncooled buildings through Texas summers amounts to cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. U.S. Distric...

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