Texas prisons are as hot as ovens. I’m being cooked like a rotisserie chicken

Each year gets hotter but there's still barely any air conditioning in the state's prisons. I know what it's like to be cooked alive

This essay was published in partnership with Prison Journalism Project, which publishes independent journalism by incarcerated writers and others affected by incarceration.

Almost everybody has visited a fast-food restaurant or roadside gas station at some point in their lives. Can you picture the rotisserie chickens, slowly rotating under the red-hot light?