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the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has declined to provide air conditioners in most inmate housing areas, or even to set maximum temperature standards in these areas, where temperatures often exceed 100 degrees during the summer months. The TDCJs failure to address the extreme heat conditions in its prisons is a violation of the law, both from a constitutional and international perspective. The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment, and courts have repeatedly held, as recently as December in Louisiana, that failure to mitigate the Souths extreme summer temperatures is a violation of the Constitution. Even detainees at Guantanamo Bay are provided with air-conditioned cells.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:16:32 +0000

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