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Committee backs substitute to require cell-level measures for extreme temperatures in prisons
Summary
The committee reported a substitute to House Bill 1894 directing correctional facilities to provide cell-level cooling or warming measures when interior temperatures cross designated thresholds and to explore improved electronic monitoring; the substitute was reported 4-2.
The House Committee on Public Safety adopted a substitute to House Bill 1894 that would require the Department of Corrections to provide specified cooling or warming measures inside cells when temperatures exceed or fall below set thresholds and to explore more accurate, wireless temperature monitoring.
Sponsor Delegate Seabold told the committee that seven prisons in Virginia lack central…
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