(FILES) The Wynne Unit is pictured in Huntsville, Texas, on May 21, 2013. Prisoners, ex-convicts, and family members of prisoners are extremely concerned about the high temperatures being experienced inside several Texas prisons, which do not have air conditioning, as a heat wave hits the southern United States. (Photo by Chantal VALERY / AFP) Houston, United States — On the afternoon of July 4, as Americans were celebrating the country's independence with elaborate fireworks displays, a prisoner named Joseph Martire passed out in his cell in Texas, amid the excessive heat that has been swamping much of the southern United States in recent days.

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