Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on August 25, 2017. In the aftermath, prisoners at the Beaumont prison complex and the TDCJ’s Stiles and LeBlanc Units, as well as the Gist State Jail, experienced a repeat of what had happened in 2005 with Hurricane Rita. They went days without food, sufficient potable water, showers or medication, and had to wade through backed-up sewage. One difference was the ability of federal prisoners to send emails through the CorrLinks system. Desperate emailed messages sent to family members describing the appalling conditions were forwarded to U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett, whose inquiries likely led to a shorter period of poor conditions for the prisoners at Beaumont. Still, they suffered for weeks following Harvey’s second landfall.