There's obviously costs in running and maintenance of them, so there are more costs involved.
But damn just let them have their A/C it's a basic human right.
Privatized prisons. What a fucking shitshow.
Treating prisoners HUMANELY reduces the rate at which they go back to prison, which reduces the amount of money these scumbags get off them. Of course they would fight this.
The fact that this is the status quo is completely obscenely stupid and immoral.
You can thank Grade A asshole Ken Paxton (our state attorney general) for the lawsuit that delayed the AC installation. (and only really for "medically sensitive" individuals predisposed to heatstroke) He's also one of the big anti-LGBT politicians that pushed to revoke the ability of transgender individuals to use restrooms of their identified gender in schools, blocked climate change research at the behest of ExxonMobil, pushed for open carry on campuses, thinks there is a "war on Christianity" in the education system, is against overtime pay for low income workers, defended gerrymandered districts in Texas, and he's been indicted on multiple fraud charges but has successfully delayed the trials multiple times to stay in power, and this is our state attorney general. He's literally scum of the earth.
Just look at this fucker.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/114655/9a872ba5-89f5-4608-9c24-95725dae9fba/image.png
Private prisons in the US aren't even that old. They have their origins in colonial times and as an alternative to slavery after the Civil War with convict leases, but the first completely privately owned prison was
started in 1984 when the Corrections Corporation of America took over a Tennessee jail.