, a researcher with the Brown University Department of Epidemiology. “They're going to be even more at risk without that infrastructure and the resources."The summer of 2015, when Jones died, temperatures reached 100 degrees on five days in Beeville, Texas, where he was incarcerated, according to historical weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The high was 98 degrees the day Jones died, data shows.
The watchdog office"heard reports of people engaging in assaultive behavior in order to be transferred to air-conditioned disciplinary housing assignments," the report said. , a researcher on heat in U.S. jails and prisons. Amanda Hernandez, a spokesperson for the department, said current measures within prisons are working, citing that there have been no deaths from heat this summer
Inmates who responded to the survey reported inconsistent access to water and ice. Sixty-one percent said they didn’t have access to additional cool-down showers. Many reported being denied access to respite areas due to overcrowding or lack of staff, or only being allowed to go once per day for only a few minutes.
Fathi, the head of ACLU’s National Prison Project, said the country's problem with mass incarceration and “uniquely long sentences” means the prison population is not only large, but also aging.
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