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At an 8 a.m. daily meeting on the day of Ramirez’s death, Telfair State Prison Warden Andrew McFarlane ordered department heads to keep inmates hydrated, bring them ice and avoid leaving them ...
The prison is scheduled to get a new conditioning system soon, officials say. “A lot of the prisons have old air conditioning systems,” DAC spokesperson Keith Acree said. “And keeping them ...
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 ...
On May 19, 2009, Powell was supposed to be moved to a psychiatric unit for observation on suicide watch.At 11:00 a.m., Powell was placed in an outdoor cage to await cell transfer, during which she was exposed to temperatures of 107 °F (42 °C) for a period of four hours; the transfer was delayed due to a "disturbance at the observation ward". [7]
The prison is in Bayport about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Minneapolis, which was under an afternoon heat advisory for temperatures approaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius).
In 2008, it was revealed that the U.S. military was detaining Iraqi prisoners in wooden crates, arousing concern of their use as hotboxes. [5] In 2009, Marcia Powell, a prisoner at Arizona State Prison Complex – Perryville, United States, died of heat exposure after being placed in an outdoor cage for four hours. [6]
Judges have imposed sentences of home confinement, as an alternative to prison, as far back as the 17th century. Galileo was confined to his home following his infamous trial in 1633. Authorities often used house arrest to confine political leaders who were deposed in a coup d'état, but this method was not widely used to confine numerous ...
The administrative law judge, Amy Friedman, wrote that the evidence showed that the officer’s use of force was unnecessary because the two inmates were backing away from the other inmates and ...