It's ubiquitous now, but there was a time when air conditioning in Houston was much less common—and it wasn't as long ago as you think. You can still see vestiges of life without AC, in the form of transom windows and belt-driven ceiling fans in Victorian-era buildings throughout Southeast Texas. There's an argument to be made that Houston would not be the place it is today—a major hub for technology, the petrochemical industry, and the largest medical center in the world, and a regional population of 7.5 million people—without the advent ...
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I survived eight Texas summers without air conditioning in a parking-space-sized cell that we called a pizza oven. The heat instantly would awaken me when my arm accidentally touched the burning wall. My neighbors’ desperation resulted in self-mutilation and suicide attempts to get to the air-conditioned psych center. Daily, I witnessed guards quit, faint from the heat, change employment status from full- to part-time. Days without electrical power. Days without being able to flush the toilet. Days without ice-cold drinking water. I stopped b ...
Advocates for Texas prison inmates are asking a federal judge to declare the state's lack of air conditioning in most facilities as unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment.
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LISTEN – 8:53 ; If you are in a home with central air conditioning at the moment (as many hopefully are), raise a glass to Ned Cole and his alma mater, The University of Texas at Austin. In the mid-1950s, homes with occupants fortunate enough to have air conditioning were cooled by window units. Central air conditioning did exist but only in large buildings like department stores or else in large, expensive homes. In 1952, a 34-year-old go-getter named Ned Cole, a 1939 UT architecture graduate...
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Current and former inmates describe dangerous conditions inside Texas prisons as they bear an intense heatwave with no air conditioning.
The majority of Texas inmates are living in prison cells without access to air conditioning. Prison advocates and family members say their loved ones are being tortured by extreme heat and lack of...
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