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Texas prisons must be air conditioned by 2029, federal judge orders

A federal judge has ruled that conditions in Texas prisons without air conditioning violate inmates’ constitutional rights and ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to install air conditioning throughout its prison system by the end of 2029.

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Federal judge orders Texas to have air conditioning in every prison by end of 2029The ruling said that the state prison agency has estimated that systemwide air conditioning would cost about $1.5 billion.

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