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On hot summer days, concrete and steel can turn prison cells into heat traps. At Minnesota’s Lino Lakes prison, about 336 people are incarcerated in two medium-security housing units the state acknowledges do not have effective cooling.

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00:01So the sun would bake that room.
00:04And these are small rooms.
00:05I mean, I can literally go like this and touch both walls.
00:08When you get two bodies in there on top of that,
00:11not allowed to have your door open, it cooks.
00:17Nausea and just basically being exhausted
00:21is the most part irritated, obviously,
00:24perfusively sweating and not be able to do anything about it.
00:28It's not rehabilitative environment.
00:30It's not a restorative environment.
00:32It's a punitive environment.
00:36I actually started in those units 35 years ago as a brand new officer.
00:39My first day was in those units.
00:40When it was hot, it was hot.
00:42But we have made some adjustments over the years.
00:48Whether it be painting the skylights or putting screens on the windows
00:53so we can open up all the windows,
00:54allowing the guys to get outside as much as possible.
00:58I believe we did everything that we could
01:00short of putting air conditioning in the building.
01:03All of the examples that the guys gave us,
01:05all the things that they requested, I think we've done.
01:09We need to worship in.
01:10We need to worship in.
01:10We need to worship in.
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