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But that’s near impossible for a majority of the 80,000 people incarcerated in Florida prison facilities who don’t have air conditioning in their dorms.
Activists and lawmakers gathered Saturday at Orlando’s Lake Eola to push for better living conditions for inmates.
“Agony” is the word former inmate Thomas Fannin used to describe his experience living in a Florida prison during the summertime.
“You work out in the hot sun all day and then you have to go back to the dorm, and it’s like 110 degrees in there,” he said.
Thomas was one of many at Lake Eola pushing for better living conditions for Florida prisoners.
The Florida Department of Corrections acknowledges only about 24 percent of its dorms have air conditioning.

My A/C blew out years ago, the fan works fine. If people being PUNISHED for doing wrong deserve cool air maybe the State should fix mine and buy the electric?

The junior high school I went to didn't have air conditioning - talk about agony...

Don't give a rats ass, couldn't care if they got fed rotten meat either.

This reminds me of an anecdote that I'll relate here...

Once upon a time, *someone* was a correctional officer at a max security state pen in the 90's. *they* worked most of *their* time in the AC/DC administrative confinement/disciplinary confinement unit....the prison within the prison. AC confinement was for pedos and other inmates in danger of being exterminated by their fellow vermin. DC was for inmates too violent or disruptive to even exist in the prison. They were all confined to their cells 24/7 except for 1 hour of supervised solo recreation in a pen behind the unit.

*This particular officer* can affirm that the only part of the housing unit that had AC was the enclosed officer station, there were large industrial high velocity fans mounted up that pushed/pulled air through the unit for the inmates.

Quite frequently, one of the animals would be too bored and agitated and when their door slots were opened for chow or medication dispersal, the inmate would launch a cup of "soup" out of the door slot. Soup was their styrofoam cup filled with piss and sh*t that they would throw at and attempt to get on officers or medical staff. We were trained to be watchful for this, as who wants a case of hepatitis or HIV?

When that happened, all staff retreated out of the inmate area of the unit, and the fans were shut off to let them stew in the funk for a bit. Prisons already STINK, and having a large puddle of liquidized fecal matter cooking off inside a housing unit in the summer was worse than eyewatering. Oh the howls of protest that went up. Peer pressure would correct the soup heavers for a few weeks before one of them caved in and did it again. An endless cycle of living in an outhouse.

I'll be the asshole here.....
I am a Florida native who grew up in a home without A/C. Our home was built in 1870. It was hot, but it was designed to be livable as it had a lage space under the foundation and a huge attic with large vents to help keep things bearable. I went to elementary and Jr. High schools built by the WPA in the 1930's with out A/C. They had large breezeways, huge awnings over large, open windows. They were bearable.

Modern buildings in Florida are made to be cooled by A/C. Jails, by their nature are not designed to provide adequate airflow due to security. Our prison system has a lot of people who do not belong in prison to begin with. Even the ones that do, don't deserve to live in horrible conditions, just because they're in jail.

Either fix the A/C or build jails that don't need them.

I avoided prison by not doing drugs, not stealing, not assaulting &c.

Remember "Cool Hand Luke"? I say bring back the chain gangs. Make'em work.Up until a few years ago, I remember seeing gangs of guys in the orange overalls with Prisoner on the back. Have not see them since the Libiturds took over.

But since the Libitard prosecutors that Soros shoved down our throats only convict Conservatives for political crimes, and those of us that defend ourselves, no worries - the jail's inmates deserve to suffer in the minds of the Libitards Demorats.

Or perhaps their next Constitutional Right will be AC?

I hear AOC was arrested? Rent would have enjoyed seeing AOC sweating in a porn movie set in jail!

P5guy you can get arrested for other things,driving on a suspended license and the list goes on,but its nice to know you're a law abiding citizen.

lighteye,would that have been Lorton ? Heard that place was a hell hole.

P5 Guy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:44 am I avoided prison by not doing drugs, not stealing, not assaulting &c.

This guy gets it. Don't do the crime and you won't do the time.

TonyR wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 6:12 pm P5guy you can get arrested for other things,driving on a suspended license and the list goes on,but its nice to know you're a law abiding citizen.

lighteye,would that have been Lorton ? Heard that place was a hell hole.

Nope, another Central Florida county. I was ecstatic every time we had to do a transfer, get out of the funk and get some fresh air. Some state pens were better than others. I also did a rotation at the Morgan Street jail in Tampa as part of my academy training, a/k/a the dungeon. When they razed that place, they did the county a favor.

For those that don't know the difference between jail and prison, sentences of less than one year and you get to stay in a county jail, more than that and you end up in a state pen. I tried like hell to get a gig with the county, but the state had the only openings at the time.

The AC/DC unit was filled with guys with multiple life sentences who had nothing to lose and liked to fight. You try like hell to use your brain instead of your hands, but that wouldn't always work. They already have a sentence of a few hundred years, what are you possibly going to do with them? They're already in solitary in a max security prison and will never see the light of day again. I'm 6'3" and not a small guy, but I was the smallest officer on the unit. You HAD to be able to handle yourself to be in there. Some of those corn fed farm boys who became officers were HUGE. I was only in fear of my life once when I was 1 on 1 with an inmate with biceps bigger around than my thighs. It was a series of strictly defensive maneuvers on my part until help arrived. This was in the 90's, mind you, and I wasn't even getting $7/hr to go into fight mode every day. Turnover was pretty bad. The officers with better skills and prospects eventually bailed, including myself. It was a disappointing end to what had been an 11 year LE career. 2 years of corrections tainted me forever.