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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Jolie McCullough

Texas House budgets $545 million for prison air conditioning. The Senate hasn’t offered anything.

Inmates walk down a hallway at Brazoria County's Darrington prison in July 2017.
Prisoners walk down a hot hallway at Brazoria County's Darrington prison in July 2017. (Credit: Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune)

The Texas House last week committed to spend $545 million to install air conditioning in many of the state’s dangerously hot prisons.

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