'There Have to Be Limits': Lawsuit Urges Scorching Prisons to Cool Down
The Texas Observer - 2024-04-22T17:00:00.000Z

Last June, Bernhardt Tiede suffered a likely stroke while living in a prison cell that regularly got up to around 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The 65-year-old—whose story inspired the 2011 Richard Linklater film “Bernie”—is housed at the Estelle Unit in Huntsville. Now, several new parties have joined and expanded a lawsuit Tiede filed last year against […] Read this story