The price of bottled water went up 50% in prison commissaries across Texas last month. The move has two state agencies pointing the finger at each other as inmates struggle to endure a deadly heatwave in facilities without air conditioning. | via TPRNews
The price of bottled water went up 50% in prison commissaries across Texas last month. The controversial move has two state agencies pointing the finger at each other as inmates struggle to endure an entrenched and deadly heatwave in facilities without air conditioning.
About two-thirds of Texas prisons lack air conditioning, and 271 deaths between 2001-2019 may have been caused by extreme heat days, according to a 2022 study published in theInmates and their families are bearing the burden of the price increase at a dangerous time — with heat in Texas prisons regularly in excess of what would be considered “safe” levels in county jails.
“I would never drink the water at the tap,” said Don Aldaco, a recently paroled man who spent 24 years in various TDCJ facilities. “I would always get a piece of a sheet and I would tie it on the actual spigot, like a filter. I would have to change it like every other day because of all the rust and all the crud coming out.
“Do you smell the sewer?” Aguilar said she asked him, “And he goes, 'You kind of just smell it all. It's just this big ole rich mix of rancid smell.' ” “Due to the increase, TDCJ held the price at a lower cost for a few months as it went through our internal processes and to delay the impact felt by the inmates for as long as we could,” said Amanda Hernandez, director of communications for TDCJ.
The prices may seem negligible to the working world — as a single bottle goes from between $.15-.$20 to $.30.
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