A legal battle over a lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons is bringing together advocates on the issue and one current inmate who says his health is being endangered by the state’s hot prisons — the former mortician whose murder case inspired the movie “Bernie.

With the threat of another hot summer ahead, advocates asked a federal judge to declare 100-degree-plus conditions in uncooled Texas facilities unconstitutional.

Lawyers for Bernie Tiede, the subject of Richard Linklater's dark comedy "Bernie," are seeking to expand the scope of his 2023 lawsuit against the