PRISONERS TO BE MOVED TO BEAT EXCESSIVE HEAT

  

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says they will temporarily move approximately 1,000 prisoners following a judge's orders to provide the inmates relief from hot temperatures inside the Pack Unit in Navasota.

Last week, a federal judge ordered the state to come up with a plan to lower the temperature to 88 degrees inside the prison. Attorneys for inmates say the sweltering summer heat is endangering the prisoners’ health.

The TDCJ issued details Thursday, on a plan to temporarily move the prisoners to either Austin or Diboll.

The prisoners being moved have a variety of health conditions or are at least 65 years old.

State prison officials say they considered several other options, but they were not deemed practical.

 

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  1. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. However if I read this right these prisoners are elderly & have health conditions that could cause them harm even death with excessive heat! Be kind to each other if these were your famiy with age & health conditions I think one would want them safe & treated with respect & humanity!

  2. Derr Kluge, JS, and Ernest. I bet all three of you call yourselves Christians also. Shame. I was not raised to torture people or wish harm on anyone. You should seek counseling if think it’s okay for someone to sit a prison cell at 100 degrees. They were trying to get it down to 88° not 72°.

    1. Also, by law the jail must provide emergency care to prisoners in physical distress. Emergency care is expensive normally, and even more so when state prisoners are involved. As the Pack Unit inmates are either elderly or already have some debilitating physical condition, they are more vulnerable to physical distress initiated by extreme heat, and thus the taxpayers will be on the hook for the additional money spent on emergency care. This move is an attempt to SAVE THE TAXPAYERS SOME MONEY.

    2. ah yaaaa it’s ok to sit, us law abiding tax payers work in 110 degree temps. Bleeding hearts is destroying the country

      1. If the job you work in is 110º that’s your choice. There are always other options out there with a better climate for you.

  3. I have never heard of such a bunch of stupid ! Just a consequence of their bad decisions and actions. Do the right thing , be a productive person of society, get a job and have air conditioning and Pay for it. Do the crime and Burn Up.

  4. This a CROCK of HORSE MANURE. Me, as a 10 year old, picked cotton along with my entire family in 100° weather…what a CROCK. AGAIN, jails and prisons ARE NOT MADE TO BE COMFORTABLE. It’s a place of PUNISHMENT.

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