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During a Summer of Record Heat, Many Prisoners in Texas Struggled to Make It Through the Day Without AC
Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersNearly every morning this summer, Cory Tillotson woke up expecting a day of triple-digit heat and began a daily battle to avoid the kind of severe heat exhaustion that can cause organ damage and even death. Tillotson is serving a sentence for drug trafficking in Bradshaw State Jail, a private prison thirty miles east of Tyler that lacks air-conditioning in the housing units. During one of the hottest summers in Texas history, his typical day would go as follows. After waking, he would get in line for one of the three cold showers shared by the...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersNearly every morning this summer, Cory Tillotson woke up expecting a day of triple-digit heat and began a daily battle to avoid the kind of severe heat exhaustion that can cause organ damage and even death. Tillotson is serving a sentence for drug trafficking in Bradshaw State Jail, a private prison thirty miles east of Tyler that lacks air-conditioning in the housing units. During one of the hottest summers in Texas history, his typical day would go as follows. After waking, he would get in line for one of the three cold showers shared by the...WW…
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