Lawsuit accuses Texas of 'horrific' treatment of inmates in un-air conditioned prisons
by San Antonio Current
San Antonio Current— Four nonprofit prisoner-rights groups filed a complaint Monday in an Austin federal court alleging that Texas prisons' widespread lack of air conditioning violates the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The organizations joined a lawsuit filed last summer by Bernie Tiede, an inmate who argues he suffered an acute medical crisis after being housed in a Huntsville cell where temperatures exceeded 110 degrees. Tiede, a convicted murderer who served as inspiration for the...
Houston Public Media—Many Texas prisons don’t have air conditioning. This lawsuit seeks to change that.. Bernie Tiede, whose murder of a Texas widow was immortalized by Richard Linklater, is suing the state over what he calls its “cruel and unusual” treatment of inmates in hot prisons.
KIFI—Advocates, man who inspired film 'Bernie' ask for air conditioning for him and other Texas inmates. By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A legal battle over a lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons is bringing together advocates on the issue and one current inmate who says his health is being endangered by the state’s hot prisons. That inmate is the former mortician whose murder case inspired the
The Independent—Advocates, man who inspired film 'Bernie' ask for air conditioning for him and other Texas inmates. A legal battle over a lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons is bringing together advocates on the issue and one current inmate who says his health is being endangered by the state’s hot prisons