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When Will We Stop Letting People Die From Heat in Prison?
Debra Schlegel, a 64-year-old who used a wheelchair, and Tommy “TJ” McCullough, a 35-year-old, are just two of the at least nine people who died in Texas prisons in the midst of a heat wave in recent weeks. McCullough died after working outside, mowing a field, on a day when the heat index rose to 105 degrees. Despite reports from people inside the prisons about sweltering temperatures, neither death has been acknowledged by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice as heat-related. When I reached out to ask TDCJ about the deaths of these people, communications director Amanda Hernandez said that Texas prisons have had no heat deaths since 2012. Shlegel died in air conditioning and had preexi

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