After scorching summer, legislators chew over costs of cooling down Florida prisons

It was a tough summer for Roger Petrocelli, an incarcerated man who is currently serving his sentence at Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach. Nights, when temperatures hovered above 90s, were a reprieve. The warmth and humidity pushed the heat index past 100 degrees during the day, he said. “Sweating, being hot and sticky from the heat and humidity inhibits one’s ability to ...

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