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“It’s too freaking hot”: Dozens die in Texas prisons with no air conditioning amid record heat wave

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Men belonging to the Oath Keepers wearing military tactical gear attend the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Oath Keepers attorney needs her own lawyer after being charged with destroying Jan. 6 evidence

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images)

Judge in Greg Abbott’s Texas border crackdown accused of using racist slur against migrants

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Getty Images)

Abbott appoints cop indicted for misconduct during George Floyd protests to police regulatory agency

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Governor Greg Abbott (Erich Schlegel/Getty Images)

Despite Republican rhetoric, Texas already “hardened” schools. It didn’t save Uvalde

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Texas governor Greg Abbott (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

“Astounding”: Texas GOP repeatedly responded to mass shootings by loosening gun laws

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Pro-choice protest. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Texas DA drops murder charge against woman accused of self-induced abortion after reading actual law

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images)

Feds step in to investigate allegations of widespread abuse at Texas’ state-run juvenile facilities

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Coronavirus | Jail bars (Getty Images/Salon)

The COVID-19 pandemic has left many prisons unmanned

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Greg Abbott (Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Shutterstock/Photo montage by Salon)

Republican leaders threaten to freeze property tax revenues for cities that cut police budgets

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A solitary confinement cell at New York's Rikers Island jail (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

How cash can buy freedom from the coronavirus crisis

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FILE - This Oct. 9, 2014, file photo shows the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. An Oklahoma grand jury investigating the state’s execution procedures said Thursday, May 19, 2016 that a top lawyer for Gov. Mary Fallin encouraged the use of the wrong lethal injection drug in an execution that was later called off. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) (AP)

Texas executed an inmate for a prison murder. His lawyers said false testimony put him on death row

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Texas prison officials admit violating court order on air conditioned units for inmates

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