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Prisons in more than a dozen U.S. states are not fully air-conditioned. Leo Patrizi/Getty ImagesExtreme heat is taking an increasing toll across the U.S. in summertime. People who are incarcerated ...
The state has a constitutional responsibility to keep incarcerated people safe, said Keisha Williams, a spokesperson for the ACLU of North Carolina, and that includes being safe from extreme heat.
Before parts of Unit 29 were closed following a spate of inmate deaths and rioting in 2020, it held up to 1,500 prisoners, including death row inmates; the entire prison currently houses about ...
Prison policy limits such outside confinement to a maximum of two hours. [2] A staffed control room located 20 yards away from Powell's cage had a full view on her. Powell was not provided with water during this time. [8] She collapsed from heat stroke, at 2:40 p.m. and was brought to West Valley Hospital at 3:12 p.m.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary to increase shade and take other steps to protect prisoners doing agricultural labor from dangerous heat. U.S ...
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. [1] Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning , or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. [ 2 ]
A 2003 report by Amnesty International found that prisoners at Camp Bucca "were held in tents in the extreme heat and were not provided with sufficient drinking water or adequate washing facilities," and that "they were forced to use open trenches for toilets and were not given a change of clothes -- even after two months detention." [90]
In the nearby state of New Mexico, a pair of fast-moving wildfires abetted by the blistering heat have killed two people, burned more than 23,000 acres and destroyed 500 homes, according to ...