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Chandra Bozelko

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Chandra Bozelko is the author of Up the River: An Anthology and writes the award-winning blog Prison Diaries.

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This is no way to treat animals, or humans

The consequences of failing to cool Texas prisons doesn’t just fall on the inmates. It also falls on taxpayers whose money gets wasted when the TDCJ incapacitates its wards with uncontrolled temperatures before they can engage in rehabilitative programming. And it falls on the general public when prisoners return to society less than fully reformed.