INDIANA — As Hoosiers continue to endure the hot, dry weather, convenient access to cool air is a godsend but Indiana’s incarcerated are not so lucky, as many correctional buildings do not have air conditioning systems.
The facilities are unbearable during the day and into the night, when the humidity levels are expected to drop but sometimes do not. Heritage Trail and Plainfield correctional facility inmates say their complaints about the lack of cool air have fallen on deaf ears and are denied grievance forms by staff.
Brian Dawe, national director of the corrections officer advocacy group One Voice United, said temperatures in most prisons without air conditioning can exceed 100 degrees in the summer…