Thursday, 23 June 2016

Judge rules Texas prison must provide inmates with safe-drinking water

Judge rules Texas prison must provide inmates with safe-drinking water

A group of prisoners alleging they have to drink arsenic-laden water to stay cool inside their hot Texas lockup won a legal victory Tuesday in an ongoing lawsuit after a federal judge ordered the Texas prison system to provide safe drinking water that doesn't violate "contemporary standards of decency." U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison has given the prison system 15 days to replace the water supply at the Wallace Pack Unit in Navasota, located about 70 miles northwest of Houston.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/23/judge-rules-texas-prison-must-provide-inmates-with-safe-drinking-water.html?source=Snapzu

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