punishes people how did i live 20 years in my life in hot kansas and we didn t have air conditioning, how did i survive? a lot of people don t have air conditioning or conveniences. the texas prison system is not intentionally cooking criminals. they do other things, they give them extra water and give them ice and let them take cold showers. mike: how about fans. they have fans, even though it s not central air, it s enough to keep people safe and that s all we tear about. mike: only 21 out of some that have air conditioning. texas, arizona, those are southern states that have high, hot temperatures and it s just not fair to a criminal to treat them that way. mike: but it s not ftorture. it could be. think about the fact that a lot of people in texas,
times square to the rockefeller center area. several people were injured and it was a scene. bill: juliet, we re getting a shocking new development in the u.s. drug war with mexico. u.s. and mexican officials believe a cross-border drug gang that was actually borne out of the texas prison system has evolved into a contract killing machine. michael brahns, former chief of operations for the u.s. drug enforcement administration, the dea, is back to us today. michael, good morning to you. who are these guys, and how were they borne out of prisons in texas? well, the name of the gang is the body aztecas or the aztec neighborhood. it s a mexican prison gang, consisting of the best estimates are somewhere between 1000, upwards to 2000 members, that are embedded in a number of u.s. prisons, federal and state,