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![“very frequently” during the summer.420 Ms. Simmons testified that she witnessed other inmates
intentionally harm themselves—“mak[ing] it look like a suicide attempt”—just so that they would
“get into the air-conditioned crisis management center” to “get a break from the heat.”421 Mr.
Malouf similarly testified about how consistent exposure to extreme heat made him feel and the
desperation it created: he testified that the heat felt like it “suck[ed] the oxygen right out of [him]”;
that he saw other inmates pass out due to heat; and that inmates in administrative segregation would
“fairly regularly” start fires so that the unit would be flooded and they could cool down by lying in
the water. 422 The scale of heat-related grievances filed by TDCJ inmates confirms that this suffering](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b2zlnxrfackjw5h3lbemyqg5/bafkreibr7wzru4pjtzeb2hiobfjy7bmxmrb2l5nnppn3trmppqudpk7uji)
