Study: Extreme heat responsible for hundreds of deaths in Texas prisons

Grist
By Alleen BrownNov 10, 2022, 1:00 pm112 pts
In the dozens of Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning, new research shows that 13 percent of deaths during the six hottest months every year from 2001 through 2019 were likely due to extreme heat. The study, which was published last week in the academic journal JAMA Network Open, is the…

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