No air conditioning in 150-year-old facility makes for reportedly unbearable conditions
Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's. TELEGRAM FILE PHOTOST. JOHN'S, N.L. — As temperatures in the St. John’s region reach record highs of more than 30 C, inmates at Her Majesty’s Penitentiary say an already challenging situation has become just about unbearable.
“You feel like a dog in a car with the windows up. There’s zero relief. It feels like no air at all. I don’t know how much longer I can stand it, to tell you the truth,” he said. Air quality has also been a long-standing complaint among inmates and workers at HMP, noted in 2008 in “Decades of Darkness, Moving Towards the Light,” a provincial government-mandated review of the prison system.
In 2017, Kenny Green raised the issue in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court as part of a civil suit against the province, in which he sued for negligence in connection with a riot at HMP that saw him stabbed and beaten by other inmates as he was serving time for manslaughter. Defence lawyer Robert Hoskins — who last year successfully argued extra credit for a client based on what the court found were harsher-than-usual conditions experienced at HMP as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, affecting the man’s health — describes the lack of air conditioning in the prison during the summer as inhumane.
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