SB 104-10: Treating Incarcerated Persons Humanely Act (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

3. No prison in Atlasia shall operate a fan within the vicinity of an incarcerated individual’s cell should the heat index of the prison exceed ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit.

I get the point of this obviously in reference to it being the only heat mitigation, but I worry about unintended consequences here, especially if the AC system were to break, the wording here could tie the hands and lead to nothing being done to mitigate the heat.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Certainly you want to make sure no one is dragging their feat on getting repair people out there to fix a down AC system, but there are shortages in this area and long delays in terms of getting people onsite for a number of repair jobs, and even absent the covid induced situation, these things weren't same day most of the time. This is especially so with a prison complex, which can be at some distance away.

For such a temporary situation, you would want to be able to use any means available to mitigate the heat, especially down South.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aye