Jamal is the justice correspondent for Scripps News. He has found a home in criminal and social justice reporting, focusing largely on incarcerated and marginalized communities.
Marci Marie Simmons says she gets hundreds of letters from Texas prisoners, scared of the extreme heat.Simmons says in one letter a Texas inmate writes, 'it gets so hot in the dorms the fan literally feels like a blow dryer is blowing hot air on my face.''These folks, that are dying because of the lack of climate control in Texas prisons, didn't get sentenced to death,' Simmons said.
RELATED STORY | Feds to close California women's prison plagued by sex abuseBut Texas Representative Carl Sherman says with a $30 billion state surplus, money isn't the problem.'We spend millions of dollars trying to argue against being in compliance with what we mandate to the county jails,' Rep. Sherman said.In each of the last three legislative sessions, Sherman has proposed a bill to mandate every Texas prison be kept between 65 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit.
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