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| Lawmakers, prison agency defend lack of AC in Texas prisons |
| By houstonchronicle.com- Mike Ward and Lauren McGaughy |
| Published: 04/23/2014 |
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AUSTIN - Lawmakers expressed reluctance to endorse climate-controlled prisons Tuesday despite acknowledging that Texas lockups have become a growing repository for the mentally ill, many of them on heat-sensitive drugs. "We need to have a grown-up discussion of what's practical and reasonable and what's politically acceptable," said Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, D-Houston, whose panel oversees the prison system. "But I can tell you, the people of Texas don't want air-conditioned prisons, and there's a lot of other things on my list above the heat. It's hot in Texas, and a lot of Texans who are not in prison don't have air conditioning." House Corrections Committee Chairman Tan Parker, R-Flower Mound, whose committee was one of two that held a public hearing Tuesday about the growing mental illness numbers in prisons and jails, said the issue of inmates on heat-sensitive drugs needs to be examined further. Read More. |
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