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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Stephen Simpson

A bill to air-condition all Texas prisons likely to fail again in the Senate

Inmates shuffle past new fans in the TDCJ Memorial Unit in Brazoria Co. on July 12, 2017. The prison was called the Darrington Unit until 2023.
Inmates shuffle past new fans in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Memorial Unit in Brazoria County on July 12, 2017. The prison was called the Darrington Unit until 2023. (Credit: Jolie McCullough/The Texas Tribune)

For a third consecutive time, a bill requiring prisons to have air conditioning has likely died in the Texas Senate.

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