Oregon State Hospital must resume admitting patients within 7 days, court rules
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Oregon inmates struggle with extreme heat inside prisons; advocates call for better cooling systems OregonLive.com 8 hrs ago
Oregon’s heatwave has hit prison inmates particularly hard.
Inmates have lodged complaints about sweltering temperatures over the past several days, prompting prison lawyers to call on legislators to provide them immediate relief from the conditions.
In a Monday letter to legislators, Oregon Justice Resource Center lawyers Juan Chavez and Zach Winston detailed some of the “dire” conditions that inmates have experienced. They said older, immunocompromised and mentally ill inmates have struggled even more from the heat.
They said the majority of complaints about the heat had come from inmates at the Oregon State Penitentiary, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility and Santiam Correctional Institution. Two of those facilities are in Salem, where temperatures reached 117 degrees on Monday.
63 people died in Oregon heat wave, state medical examiner says
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