A lawsuit filed this week by the prison reform advocacy group Florida Justice Institute says that extreme heat in ...

The lawsuit says the lack of air conditioning in prisons amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth ...

A nonverbal autistic man, who was in the care of a Florida residential center for 20 years, was driven to an adult day care and left inside a hot van for hours, according to his family’s attorney.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It was the hottest September in more than a century in parts of South Florida, and Dwayne Wilson could hear his 81-year-old fellow inmate gasping for breath and crying ...

After what was a disappointing legislative session for prison reform advocates, Florida inmates are still sitting in cells without air-conditioning — and advocates Thursday filed a federal class ...

Bodack, 42, remained buckled inside the van — without air conditioning — that was ... according to the outlet. “Florida Mentor failed miserably on so many levels,” Hammer said in a statement.

Florida is not alone in facing lawsuits over dangerously hot prisons. Cases have also been filed in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. One filed in Georgia in July alleged a 27-year-old inmate died ...

Yet the majority of incarcerated individuals in sweltering Florida are serving their sentences in cells that don't have air conditioning, even as the state's rising temperatures continue to break ...