{"id":14850,"date":"2024-09-27T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14850"},"modified":"2024-09-27T20:03:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T20:03:26","slug":"texas-prisoners-are-being-cooked-alive-by-high-temperatures-investigation-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14850","title":{"rendered":"Texas Prisoners Are Being &#8216;Cooked Alive&#8217; by High Temperatures, Investigation Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Only about 30 percent of Texas prisons are fully&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-prison-air-conditioning-families-rally-bdd5f3d46462d804cc1d8c7116af5d1d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">air-conditioned<\/a>. While state law&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/regulation\/texas-administrative-code\/title-37-public-safety-and-corrections\/part-9-texas-commission-on-jail-standards\/chapter-261-existing-construction-rules\/subchapter-a-existing-maximum-security-design-construction-and-furnishing-requirements\/section-261160-temperature-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mandates<\/a>&nbsp;that prison temperatures be kept between 65 degrees and 85 degrees, at dozens of state prisons, daily high temperatures topped that. At one prison, Garza West Unit, temperatures stayed above 100 degrees for 11 days straight in the summer of 2023.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Bi0cOWOuXs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/07\/30\/texas-prisoners-are-being-cooked-alive-by-high-temperatures-investigation-says\/\">Texas Prisoners Are Being &#8216;Cooked Alive&#8217; by High Temperatures, Investigation Says<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Texas Prisoners Are Being &#039;Cooked Alive&#039; by High Temperatures, Investigation Says&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/07\/30\/texas-prisoners-are-being-cooked-alive-by-high-temperatures-investigation-says\/embed\/#?secret=zdR0rw64u7#?secret=Bi0cOWOuXs\" data-secret=\"Bi0cOWOuXs\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Only about 30 percent of Texas prisons are fully air-conditioned. While state law mandates that prison temperatures be kept between 65 degrees and 85 degrees, at dozens of state prisons, daily high temperatures topped that. At one prison, Garza West Unit, temperatures stayed above 100 degrees for 11 days straight in the summer of 2023.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/07\/30\/texas-prisoners-are-being-cooked-alive-by-high-temperatures-investigation-says\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,284,21],"class_list":["post-14850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-prison","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14851,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850\/revisions\/14851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}