A lawsuit challenging extreme heat in a Florida prison collected temperature readings during the summer. It found brutal heat ...

A new report filed in a class-action lawsuit shows that conditions inside a South Florida men’s prison were far more extreme ...

This article originally appeared on Stateline. Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits. Facing growing pressure from ...

Schiavon found prolonged, dangerous levels of heat lasting for days at a time. In one dayroom, the heat index exceeded 88 degrees for 121 consecutive days, 93 degrees for 35 straight days, 98 degrees ...

As the heat index hit 105 degrees, lawyers requested swift cooling measures in a Missouri prison with no A/C. One man shares the dangerous conditions inside while people await a judge’s ruling. In May ...