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The judge’s ruling says that inmates in lockups without air conditioning are being given punishments that violate their constitutional rights.
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As temperatures in the country continue to approach 90 degrees Fahrenheit, inmates have been sleeping on concrete cell floors. Even the guards have complained.
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The ruling is a departure from a series of decisions by the justices expanding religious freedoms in recent terms.
A three-judge panel gave a group of 17 transgender women a few weeks to seek further recourse in court before their transfer to men’s facilities could take effect.
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Decades-old prison buildings were designed to be secure from the ground but not the air. Experts say that makes a lucrative smuggling trade hard to tackle.
Inmates in Texas prisons want a federal court to force the state to provide air-conditioning for all its prison cells.
The investigations are the latest moves by the Trump administration to force prisons to house transgender women with male inmates.
Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies. They also face stigma that robs them of familial and community support.
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Corrections officials would also prohibit magazines and newspapers from being sent to inmates. It would be the strictest ban in the country.