I live in a dorm with 204 women and we're all, you know what I mean?

And it's just on top of each other and then of course they have the fans but the fans

are essentially blowing heat.

It's like driving down the street with your vent on instead of your air conditioner.

So it's just snowy breathe from it at all.

Laquita Davis spent 21 years in Texas prisons and for nearly that whole time she didn't have

air conditioning.

Texas can get up to 107, 108 in August and September and the facilities how they're made you

have to add 20 degrees.

Incarcerated people are living in cell blocks that trap the hot air causing it to feel

even hotter inside than those 100 plus temperatures on the outside.

And Laquita says it was bad enough during the day but the nights were unbearable.

It was so hard to sleep.

Like just getting through it I used to have to wet my clothes and just lay on the floor

because the floor is concrete and it lasts for about 30 minutes.

So you're looking at about every 30 minutes getting up and just trenching yourself with

water and having this clothes on and laying the floor because I mean there's no air conditioner.

Imagine wetting your clothes and resting your head on a concrete floor just to get a few

minutes of relief.

Texas is one of 13 states across the south and Midwest that don't have universal air conditioning

in their state prisons.

There's no national data on AC and prisons so the problem is likely far more widespread.

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