'In Everyone's interest:' Bristol County Women's Jail Gets Air Conditioning

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Despite North Carolina’s brutally hot summers, about 21% of NC prisons are without air-conditioning. by Rachel Crumpler, North Carolina Health News July 9, 2025 April Barber Scales recalls her 18 summers spent incarcerated without air conditioning at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh — the state’s largest women’s prison — as physically and mentally demanding as she said relief from the grueling heat was hard to com…

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'In everyone's interest:' Bristol County women's jail gets air conditioning

DARTMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) — Air conditioning units have finally been installed in the Bristol County women's jail in Dartmouth after staff there requested the improvements back in 2023. The Bristol County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) said temperatures inside the facility can reach more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. Those high temperatures reportedly made the floors slippery from the humidity. The BCSO also noted that the heat made staff mis…