More news on this from the Grits for Breakfast blog.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has announced it will hold a hearing in Washington, D.C. on October 27, 2014 regarding Texas’ violation of prison inmates’ human rights by exposing them to dangerously hot temperatures. The IACHR is an independent organ of the Organization of American States, whose mission is to promote and protect human rights in the Western hemisphere.

More here: http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/do-sweltering-texas-prisons-violate.html#more