This article originally appeared on Stateline. Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits. Facing growing pressure from ...

Sensors inside inside Dade Correctional Institution averaged 98 degrees heat index between May and October. Miami Herald staff file photo Miami A new report filed in a class-action lawsuit shows that ...

As the heat index hit 105 degrees, lawyers requested swift cooling measures in a Missouri prison with no A/C. One man shares the dangerous conditions inside while people await a judge’s ruling. In May ...

A new report filed in a class-action lawsuit shows that conditions inside a South Florida men's prison were far more extreme than the sweltering summer temperatures outside - with the heat index ...

August is on track to be the hottest on record in Phoenix, where nearly every day has exceeded 110 degrees. But heat-related deaths are expected to be lower this year. Arizona has had another ...