Prisoner rights advocates unveil mock jail cell to demonstrate lack of air conditioning in most Florida prisons By Mitch Perry Tampa
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Activists for prisoner rights in Florida think it’s inhumane that a majority of the state s prisons lack air conditioning and air ventilation, which is why they’re encouraging people to sit inside a mock jail cell currently set up in the parking lot of the Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg for three minutes this week.
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The GEO Group, which runs five private prisons in Florida, does have air conditioning in their facilities
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CDC Survey: Distrust Likely To Keep Majority Of Florida Prisoners From Getting COVID-19 Vaccine
By Alex DeLuca
May 3, 2021
When Jose Valentin learned he’d have the opportunity to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, he wrestled over whether or not to get it.
Valentin, who is incarcerated at Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach, said he feels lucky to be offered the potentially life-saving shot; he knows many people across the world still lack access to it. But after weighing the decision, he ultimately refused it.
“They don’t want us in society,” Valentin, 46, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1998 for first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery, wrote in an email, “so why do you want us healthy in here?”
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