Texas will relocate 1,000 heat-vulnerable inmates to facilities with air conditioning
Texas prison officials will relocate 1,000 heat-sensitive inmates from the Wallace Pack Unit northwest of Houston to air-conditioned facilities as part of a plan to address stifling indoor temperatures that have proven deadly.
The transfers will require the relocation of hundreds of other inmates to make room for those coming out of the Pack Unit in Navasota, according to court documents filed late Thursday in federal court by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
"The transfer of Pack Unit inmates to these facilities will require TDCJ to make meaningful adjustments to its operations, but these changes are achievable in the short term," according to the court filing. "Security and classification concerns are being addressed in several ways."
The improvements are in response to a July order by U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison in Houston to arrange for cooler living quarters for hundreds of inmates who take medication or have health conditions such as hypertension and diabetes that make them vulnerable to heat.
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