Heat Is Killing Texas Prisoners, and State Leaders Won’t Shell Out for AC

This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bernhardt Tiede has diabetes and hypertension, and is obese. In the summer of 2023, he suffered a stroke in a Texas prison cell that court documents say regularly exceeded 110 degrees. If there were ever a person the state should flag as vulnerable…