http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/review-unbearable-temperatures-in-tdcj-facilities.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:30 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/20074105?utm_medium=rss My sister is in Gatesville women prison in Gatesville TX,not only they deal with the heat,but they go days without cold water to drink,or 1 medium igloo cooler for 40 women they have windows but aren't allowed to open them,even though they are there because they broke some kind of law,n committed some kind of crime,they are humans and does not deserve tobe treated like animals get fed slop for meals,there is a big problem with grub worms in the food they are served n should have cold ice water at any giving time,living in 110plus degrees,today I went n visit my sister it was a 111 degrees,Tuesday was 112 degrees and they weren't given cold water at all

]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2016 09:03:06 UTC 20074105 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19968352?utm_medium=rss Please allow all medical ill prisoners a chance to breath colder air so they can heal. People are humans no matter where they are, even if they are incarcerated.

]]> Wed, 4 May 2016 04:12:35 UTC 19968352 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797042?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:59:53 UTC 17797042 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796937?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:33:49 UTC 17796937 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796823?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 02:52:57 UTC 17796823 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796785?utm_medium=rss any petition to reform parole to where first timers, 3-Gs, youthful offenders, and others can gain their parole when they become eligible.

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 02:27:05 UTC 17796785 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13451503?utm_medium=rss this is unexceptable, no matter what crime a person did they deserve to be treated with compassion and understanding and i would not treat anyone like this this also show how much they care for there workers all they care about is how much money they are getting! come on people stand up and say no more its our right as we are the people and can change this!

]]> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:42:33 UTC 13451503 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13447459?utm_medium=rss Florida State Prisons need help too.

]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:40:43 UTC 13447459 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13423521?utm_medium=rss Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:00:42 UTC 13423521 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13410899?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:39:32 UTC 13410899 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13405995?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:55:50 UTC 13405995 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13404389?utm_medium=rss They can use portable A/c units in these facilitys.

]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:52:21 UTC 13404389 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13402367?utm_medium=rss Our inarcerated family members are not animals and should not be treatedbas such. Yes, they have made mistakes, but their having to tolerate the Texas heat without some big fans ar a/c's is unacceptable. I have a big issue knowing that the cost is the issue when the citizens if Texas pay $9000.00 peronth rental for Mr Perry and his family to live in th Gov mansion. Can he not live in his own home and spend that money in a beter way?

]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:18:27 UTC 13402367 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13401919?utm_medium=rss Inhumanity marks a decline in humanity. Do you really want ot be remembered in this manner?

]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:53:26 UTC 13401919 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13401213?utm_medium=rss This form of treatment is inhumane. Something solid needs to be done, and fast.
Stop baking our loved ones and the employess who work for The State of Texas.
I read where John Whitmire stated "Why should we provide A/C for rapists and murderers when we cant even provide for the tax paying citizens down the street?"
What a shallow and heartless thing to say. I, and my entire family are ALL tax paying citizens and expect our tax dollars to be used wisely. We want to see change NOW or these people who are in office will be voted out, as this will continue to hit the Media.

]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:48:58 UTC 13401213 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13401043?utm_medium=rss The heat situation is a disgace...I am appalled by this situation..It is inhumane...What would you do if this was your son, daughter, mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle or any other family member what would you do...Because if you haven't realized it by now everyone that is in a Texas prision has family that does care about them and worries ...but it makes me wonder about the ones that have the power to change things if there family members were sitting in the heat with no air conditioner...would they feel guilty if they had a heat stroke or died ..probably not ...because they would have helped them ...and if they didn't shame on you ...then you would be the blame so that is where I will put my blame if something happens to my loved one

]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:05:58 UTC 13401043 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13400640?utm_medium=rss Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:56:15 UTC 13400640 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13400396?utm_medium=rss The treatment of thoses who are incarcerated during the summer months is inhumane. I am a law abiding voting citizen and have never been arrested, but I have a brother incarcerated and I find the treatment horrible.

]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:23:12 UTC 13400396 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13400305?utm_medium=rss this is so inhumane....

]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:11:14 UTC 13400305 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13368147?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:36:56 UTC 13368147 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13368004?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:55:32 UTC 13368004 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13245036?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Jul 2012 06:59:06 UTC 13245036 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12997201?utm_medium=rss Tue, 5 Jun 2012 07:19:20 UTC 12997201 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12908060?utm_medium=rss I think is very humane not to have air for these sick inmates. you don't let pets get chained up in their own back yards. yet you have "human beings" in hundred degree weather which you don't care whether they die or not this is really ridiculous how these men and women even though they are locked up they all are not violent. they still should be treat in a humae way.

]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 08:20:21 UTC 12908060 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12901058?utm_medium=rss Thu, 24 May 2012 04:29:15 UTC 12901058 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12896432?utm_medium=rss Wed, 23 May 2012 02:21:21 UTC 12896432 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12867068?utm_medium=rss Sat, 19 May 2012 09:59:30 UTC 12867068 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12862226?utm_medium=rss Sat, 19 May 2012 01:05:31 UTC 12862226 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12861846?utm_medium=rss Fri, 18 May 2012 10:38:21 UTC 12861846 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12861845?utm_medium=rss Fri, 18 May 2012 10:38:20 UTC 12861845 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12830686?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 May 2012 12:24:25 UTC 12830686 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12829802?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 May 2012 11:19:21 UTC 12829802 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12829768?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 May 2012 11:16:51 UTC 12829768 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12829660?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 May 2012 11:06:14 UTC 12829660 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12829012?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 May 2012 10:13:18 UTC 12829012 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12828998?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 May 2012 10:12:26 UTC 12828998 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12828369?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 May 2012 09:31:25 UTC 12828369 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12822663?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 May 2012 12:21:02 UTC 12822663 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12822588?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 May 2012 12:07:20 UTC 12822588 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12822471?utm_medium=rss Would you want your loved one, friend, or associate living daily under these conditions while trying to pay their debt back to society. No human should have to endure these tempatures during the months of May-August.
Praying mightily for a change!
May God Continue to Bless You!

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 11:49:47 UTC 12822471 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12822447?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 May 2012 11:45:15 UTC 12822447 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12821234?utm_medium=rss The people that are in jail are human, they need a/c like everyone else during the summer, especially here in Texas!

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 09:28:44 UTC 12821234 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12819229?utm_medium=rss My sister is in jail right now writin me letters tellin me that there is ac in the jail she is in.. I think that is wrong and something needs to happen... She is not even in the jail that they r talkin bout.. My sis is in Dayton plane state jail... I think that they need to go around checking the jail makin sure that all have go fresh food and ac

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 06:50:14 UTC 12819229 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12817971?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 May 2012 05:39:06 UTC 12817971 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12817738?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 May 2012 05:27:31 UTC 12817738 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12817598?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 May 2012 05:18:54 UTC 12817598 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12817223?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 May 2012 04:55:43 UTC 12817223 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12815893?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 May 2012 03:56:17 UTC 12815893 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12814926?utm_medium=rss a/c is a must in this Texas heat, TDCJ is killing inmates, that do NOT have the death penalty!! They do NOT hardly ever tell about the deaths from HEAT, But I have several friends & family members who are officers, & they do talk about the cruelty there!! Its awful, I dont even know these inmates & it tears me up sometimes, but the officers stick together, they are a gang in their own!!! Its evil!! TDCJ IS A DEATH TRAP!!! Its like leaving a child in a locked up car in the summer HEAT.. ILLEGAL

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 02:51:20 UTC 12814926 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12607504?utm_medium=rss I think it is absolutely inhumane to keep inmates at any criminal level locked up in facilities without A/C simply because it's a HEALTH HAZARD! It's not a hard point to see.

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:42:05 UTC 12607504 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12597393?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:50:31 UTC 12597393 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12578239?utm_medium=rss Having no air conditioning or fans in Texas is inhumane treatment of anybody. In my opinion, this rises to the level of cruel and unusual punishment and needs to be dealt with immediately. If Texas prisons are so old and outdated, the prisoners should be sent elsewhere.

]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:24:57 UTC 12578239 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12578144?utm_medium=rss This needs to be changed. It is inhumane to have people without A/C in the hot summers in Texas.

]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:09:13 UTC 12578144 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12577968?utm_medium=rss Having no air conditioning or fans in Texas is inhumane treatment of anybody. In my opinion, this rises to the level of cruel and unusual punishment and needs to be dealt with immediately. If Texas prisons are so old and outdated, send the prisoners elsewhere.

]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:41:42 UTC 12577968 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12193783?utm_medium=rss It is really a shame to treat human beings this way and you wouldn't let an animal stay in this kind of temperature, if a dog is chained up in a back yard the owner will be fined. Yet you treat these inmates worse than any animal I have heard of, they have already been tried and convicted by the state, and prison guards who some are unprofessional have the right to try and convict them all over!

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:02:47 UTC 12193783 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11937723?utm_medium=rss The heat is unbearable. Everyone was breaking out in heat rash all over their bodies. Offenders were dying from the heat. TDCJ has the mindset that it must punish the men it has in custody. Isn't it punishment enough to lose your freedom and be locked up away from family.

]]> Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:19:18 UTC 11937723 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11725750?utm_medium=rss The heat is unbearable and TDCJ should be held accountable. If you treated an animal that way you would be charged with a felony.

]]> Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:23:59 UTC 11725750 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11248901?utm_medium=rss Mon, 3 Oct 2011 04:47:46 UTC 11248901 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11230060?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:00:20 UTC 11230060 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11224299?utm_medium=rss everyone makes mistakes, some worse than others but everyone is only human. air conditions and medical should be available to all humans INCLUDING INMATES!

]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:30:22 UTC 11224299 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11219166?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:32:11 UTC 11219166 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11219165?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:31:23 UTC 11219165 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11219164?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:30:43 UTC 11219164 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11219162?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:29:31 UTC 11219162 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11218631?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:27:33 UTC 11218631 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11211630?utm_medium=rss Please it is to many people dying.

]]> Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:56:22 UTC 11211630 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11211621?utm_medium=rss Also what about the calorie cut from 2300 to 1300 a day for these men? How do you expect them to survive from startvation. An winter is there NO HEAT!!!! That's not right! What about the men that have no help from the free world? How would all of you rich people like to live like this? I know they have done things they shouldn't have to get there but come on. Have a heart please...... No matter what they have done killing &starvin isn't going to help them!!That's NOT right! Please have a heart!!

]]> Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:47:33 UTC 11211621 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11208762?utm_medium=rss The heat in Texas prison's is unbearable for any one to have to live in! An now there is NO COLD WATER GIVEN daily!!!! No matter what the charge is no one should have to live like this. An now meal's are being cut to 2 on the weekend's. That is not right. An the calorie count has been lowered and these are grown men and women that need to eat. We do not want our loved ones to die from these living conditions!!!!

]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:06:17 UTC 11208762 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11208758?utm_medium=rss The heat in Texas prison's is unbearable for any one to have to live in! An now there is NO COLD WATER GIVEN daily!!!! No matter what the charge is no one should have to live like this. An now meal's are being cut to 2 on the weekend's. That is not right. An the calorie count has been lowered and these are grown men and women that need to eat. We do not want our loved ones to die from these living conditions!!!!

]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:04:59 UTC 11208758 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11207248?utm_medium=rss Inmates have been sentenced to do time, not die, in the Texas prison system and many are dying due to the inhumane conditions. This is not what Texas should stand for.

]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:27:12 UTC 11207248 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11202937?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:34:37 UTC 11202937 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11199314?utm_medium=rss my husband is at Garza East, & it just hurts my heart that he has to be in that kind of heat. sure they did something bad, but they're are NOT wild animals to endure that heat!!

]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:08:51 UTC 11199314 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11199234?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:45:20 UTC 11199234 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11196789?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:31:14 UTC 11196789 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11196753?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:23:54 UTC 11196753 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11194354?utm_medium=rss When do we hold them reasponsible for crossing the line of cruel and unusual punishment?

]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:15:31 UTC 11194354 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11194301?utm_medium=rss I thought cruel and unusual punishments went out years ago. If the City of Houston can make it mandatory for Landlords to provide AC in high temperatures, why are the prisons allow to cook the inmates? Likewise, landlords have to provide heat in winter...and our prisons (also housing people) do not? I would call that a violation of the civil rights of the inmates. No one deserves hypothermia or illnesses associated with extreme temperatures.

]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:02:24 UTC 11194301 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11193648?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:14:56 UTC 11193648 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11193635?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:08:52 UTC 11193635 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11193395?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:04:24 UTC 11193395 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11184488?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:43:13 UTC 11184488 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11182063?utm_medium=rss Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:07:48 UTC 11182063 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11181391?utm_medium=rss This is a petition to keep Texas prisoners ALIVE
Prisoners that are sometimes even innocent of their crimes are being subject to becoming seriously ill because of the heat and Texas prisons conditions withholding Medication that is needed and mental problems not dealt with.
I am a voting Republican that is looking at these problems that aren't being recognized.

]]> Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:20:20 UTC 11181391 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11181299?utm_medium=rss I have heard of heat related siezures, first hand at Plane State Jail-Woodman State Jail- this is inhuman not even a dangerous dog would and should be kept in these conditions.

]]> Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:47:24 UTC 11181299 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11179441?utm_medium=rss Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:28:53 UTC 11179441 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11178697?utm_medium=rss This is not the middle ages. Prison is not supposed to be comfortable, but inmates are also not supposed to die from depraved indifference. No, prison should not be a vacation. But no one is requesting 72 degree temps for these guys- less than 120 would be nice. Hell, 90 would be acceptable, or 95- but 120 is inhumane.If you kept your dog, child, or elder in an unventilated 120 degree box all summer, you'd be brought up on criminal charges- but for TDCJ its ok. Shameful. Just shameful.

]]> Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:26:23 UTC 11178697 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11177064?utm_medium=rss Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:55:52 UTC 11177064 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11176991?utm_medium=rss Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:30:10 UTC 11176991 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11176290?utm_medium=rss Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:57:29 UTC 11176290 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11175553?utm_medium=rss Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:09:19 UTC 11175553 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11174512?utm_medium=rss Please help these people in dis heat problem its not right to allow sumone to suffer like dat it is to high of a tempiture 115 for someone to servive in dis heat please suport dis issue thank u n God bless

]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:45:29 UTC 11174512 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11167905?utm_medium=rss Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:28:25 UTC 11167905 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11167895?utm_medium=rss Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:23:09 UTC 11167895 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11165649?utm_medium=rss my boyfriend is currently incarcerated in the Joe f gurney unit there have been 13 deaths related to high heat in the last 2 months

]]> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:42:32 UTC 11165649 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11163401?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:30:58 UTC 11163401 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11161496?utm_medium=rss Everyone who lives in Texas knows about the heat here. People die from heat strokes! You have the offenders on lock. But do they have to be punished in the heat also? No one should DIE from a heat stroke.

]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:51:12 UTC 11161496 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11160045?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:24:55 UTC 11160045 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11157606?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:02:18 UTC 11157606 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11156861?utm_medium=rss My wife is in the TDCJ and at our ages; it's a flirt with death; I am 100% certain this year alone at her unit 5 people have died from the heat that would not have died otherwise. This IS murder of people not sentenced to death, period...

]]> Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:03:52 UTC 11156861 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11156816?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:54:23 UTC 11156816