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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will release outdoor heat readings taken at its prisons after inquired about secrecy surrounding the records. The state prisons department does not measure indoor heat levels at most of its lockups, many of which have no or only partial air conditioning. In 2019, it began refusing to make public the hourly measurements taken outside its …
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April 23, 2021