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falsified records about how hot it got in at least one Texas prison, according to an internal investigation tied to a federal lawsuit. Court documents filed this week state that TDCJ investigators ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that lack air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Wednesday in a ...

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