No A/C in Jail

[FfNJGTFO]

All it's going to take, I think, is for a few of the inmates to die by heat stroke/exhaustion, due to the lack of HVAC, and the lawsuits will start to fly. We'll see what happens then. They'll have to do a risk/benefit analysis to see if getting HVAC in the buildings that don't have it costs more than the payouts they'd need to make for wrongful death lawsuits as some inmates succumb to the heat.

[Flame Red]

So with BiDumb's Climate Emergency, the electric grid is overloaded already and will be rolling blackouts with everyone plugging in the $100K Telsa's that Pete B thinks everyone should buy.

So will the jails have priority for the electric grid so the prisoners stay comfortable while we all sweat?

[Allme]

https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/new ... conditions

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?

50 y/o native here, born/raised in Pinellas. I didn't have A/C until I was 17 and bought a window shaker, pissed my Mom off but good, funny how within 3 months the entire house was air conditioned; another story for another time. Now-a-days I cut the A/C off 3 years ago, Duke energy bill was outrageous to begin with... Honestly I don't want my 12 and 11 year olds to be soft... Two good reasons. We have a ton of fans and an exhaust fan also, keeps the house just under the temperature of the sun...honestly its cooler outside.. But the Duke can kiss my ever loving ass and my kids will KNOW what its like to be a real Floridian.

I agree with your sentiment however in all honestly prison/jail would be intolerable without air conditioning, lack of windows/cross breeze could make for a killer environment. There are a LOT of sh*tbags in prison I get it, but there are also a LOT of innocent folks that got the shaft AND there are PLENTY of non-violent offenders rotting away. There is always three sides... I am grateful I don't have to be the one to handle that mess.

[osprey21]

Truth be known I could get by without a/c but the spousal unit could not. IMHO Florida's downward spiral started in the early 60's with the advent of air conditioning becoming the norm. If it weren't for a/c the population would be closer to 5 million than the current 21+ million.

[ss1]

Truth be known I could get by without a/c but the spousal unit could not. IMHO Florida's downward spiral started in the early 60's with the advent of air conditioning becoming the norm. If it weren't for a/c the population would be closer to 5 million than the current 21+ million.

There is absolutely no ventilation in modern houses, so the minute moisture and heat get inside you get mold. Just a bit of trivia, in the Captiol Building, each state has up to two statues of people that represent the state. Florida has John Gorrie and more recently Dr. Mary Bethune who replaced Edmund Kirby Smith this year. John Gorrie invented the ice machine but basically used it for cooling medical rooms to treat malaria so he's the father of air conditioning (sort of). lol