By Cyrus Dunham
The only way to ascertain the temperature (click here) at the California Institution for Women, or CIW, on a given day is to check the hourly forecast at the nearest weather reporting stations. During the September 5 and 6 heat wave in Southern California, the closest recorded temperature to CIW hit 115 degrees. But those stations only measure outside temperatures, not the real heat index of a roughly 8-by-12 cement-walled cell, with no ventilation or air circulation....
The definition of overcrowding needs to be redefined. Multiple prisoners to one cell are deadly. It all needs to be revamped. The wardens to any prison need to know their population well enough to know when they can leave to go to a less restrictive environment. Moving prisoners out is a survival method and one that will dominate jail and prison time assigned to an inmate by the judge.
It is unrealistic to believe any more prisons can spring up overnight, so it is time the USA returns to the idea of REHABILITATION of lawbreakers and allow the prison space for those most violent in our society. It is far better to bring a high school education to a lawbreaker and then perhaps that of a community college that can provide a good-paying job, then allow a person to deteriorate in a prison or jail cell.
People on probation are easier to manage with the intent of survival because it is easier to hire probation officers and/or than to build prisons.
31 May 2020
In a recent BBC interview, the former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon suggested that this reduction could be as much as 30C, with the internal temperature of the building falling by as much as seven degrees.
So where do these figures come from and does wider research back this up?
Mr Ban was talking about a pilot project in Ahmedabad City in western India, where summer temperatures can reach as high as 50C.
In 2017, more than 3,000 city rooftops were painted using both white lime and a special reflective coating.
Known simply as "cool roofing", this process is designed to reduce the solar radiation absorbed, which in turn means less heat is transferred inside the building.
Cool roofs also emit away some heat normally retained by a building, cooling it further....
