They might indeed refuse. After just a few years discussion of the summer heat and the frigid cold and the bugs in Texas prisons would have them preferring not to go.
I will point out that in the days of Cool Hand Luke chaingangs addicts who were not from the south stayed out of the south.
While we may not fo that far I can see Texas heading in that direction after Trump reshapes the supreme court.
“While we may not fo that far I can see Texas heading in that direction after Trump reshapes the supreme court.”
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Even with Trump appointees I’m not sure it would fly very far, I suspect festering/freezing cells could be considered “cruel and unusual” by the courts.