A New Heartbeat is Coming to Benton County
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For 15 years, Iowa’s prisons have asked for air conditioning. This year something is different.  

Erin Jordan
Posted 7/3/26

As summer temperatures rise into the 90s, more than 1,000 Iowa prisoners and correctional officers are sweating it out without air conditioning.  Prolonged heat waves behind bars can cause heat stroke and exacerbate chronic conditions like asthma, heart ailments and arthritis. Studies also show prisons without air conditioning are more violent.  For years, the Iowa […]

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