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Senate committee advances bill to limit extreme temperatures in Virginia prisons
Summary
The Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee voted 9–6 to report a bill that would require climate-controlled prison facilities to keep interior temperatures between 65 and 80 degrees and direct the Department of Corrections to study remote temperature monitoring options.
The Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee voted to report a bill that would require Department of Corrections facilities capable of controlling interior temperature to maintain a range between 65 and 80 degrees and to study remote temperature monitoring systems.
The measure, introduced by Delegate Seabold, drew extensive testimony from family members of incarcerated people, civil-rights groups and researchers who said extreme heat has harmed or endangered prisoners. "The extreme temperatures in our prisons is a real problem, and people are suffering from hypothermia,…
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