Texas spent $7 mil. to fight against A/C in a prison. It may only cost $4 mil.

[Flicky]

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/08/29/texas-prison-heat-air-conditioning-cost-drop/

After settling a costly legal fight over installing air conditioning in a notoriously hot Texas prison, the state's corrections department has drastically slashed the estimated cost to permanently cool it.
At a committee hearing Wednesday at the Texas Capitol, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Executive Director Bryan Collier said the estimated cost to install permanent air conditioning at the Wallace Pack Unit near College Station is now about $4 million. In 2017, amid a years-long federal lawsuit over what a judge ruled were unconstitutional conditions in the prison, an expert obtained by the department said the cost would be more than $20 million.
Before settling the lawsuit, the department conducted its own research and the cost dropped to $11 million, but Collier said in Wednesday's hearing that number had dropped even further after the state comptroller's office said some construction upgrades weren't necessary. The state spent more than $7 million on the lawsuit over installing air conditioning in the Pack Unit's housing area.
As a result of the lawsuit, the department also has asked the Legislature for funds to install air conditioning at the Hodge Unit in East Texas, which houses developmentally disabled inmates, for an estimated $2 million, Collier said. Another $3 million has been requested to enhance security at some air-conditioned lockups so higher-level security inmates who are medically vulnerable can be moved to cooler beds.
In 2014, several Pack inmates sued the department, claiming the lack of air conditioning in the Pack prison was unconstitutional. They pointed to at least 23 prisoner deaths in Texas from heat stroke since 1998, 10 of which occurred in the heat wave of 2011.

[Skerious]

It seems like like Texas tends to have that much of a massive boner for inflicting suffering and punishment when it comes to the prison system.

[MR-X]

Welcome to the private prison system, spend money on lobbying in order to save money long-term.

[OvB]

Not private prisons also this is late Texas spent $7 million to fight against $4 million A/C installat..