Stifling temperatures in some jail facilities during the recent heat wave led the city’s independent jail-oversight agency to conclude that infrastructure improvements are essential if the Department of Correction is to “humanely house” inmates.
During visits to three city jails on July 20 and 21, personnel from the Board of Correction recorded temperatures as high 92.5 degrees inside one facility.
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