Show Summary:

I thought we’d take a break from our love stories and share what’s going on in our Texas prisons as a result of the Winter Storm of 2021 and talk with Casey Phillips from Texas Prisons Air Conditioning Advocates (TPAA).

But as we are talking, I realize that the reason she started TPAA was because of love for her husband. Since then it’s grown into a large group over 2600 members on social media. For the last three years Casey and others, advocate for air conditioning in our prisons. So many men and women die each year from heat exhaustion because there’s no air conditioning in most of the units.

Casey talks about the AC in the units and we also talk about the rally’s they do where they set up a mock prison cell where people can sit in it and feel the actual heat the men and women feel in prison during the summer. She also talks about the bills they are working on.

We also discuss the affects of covid on visitation and how lack of visitation has had an impact on the mental health of the inmates. We also throw a little Covid vaccination talk in there too.

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