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Texas plans to move 1,000 inmates to air-conditioned prison units

BY JOLIE MCCULLOUGH About 1,000 hot Texas prisoners might soon be moving to cooler accommodations. As part of a court order, Texas submitted a plan Thursday to move about 1,000 medically sensitive inmates from the Pack Unit southeast of College Station, which is not air conditioned, to other state jails and prisons that do have air conditioning. The plan […]

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