Housing Texas prison inmates in sweltering facilities that lack air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Wednesday in a groundbreaking, 91-page ruling.
Prison staff and inmates move through the Darrington Unit's main hallway on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. (Jolie Mccullough/The Texas Tribune, Jolie Mccullough/The Texas Tribune) Sign up for The Brief, ...