“Psychotropic medications can impair the body’s ability to cool itself by sweating, experts say. That’s a particular concern as the number of mentally ill inmates who take such drugs has risen steadily. According to Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2005, the most recent year available, more than half of all jail and state prison inmates had a mental  health problem. Nationally, the bureau doesn’t track heat-related deaths in jails and prisons. But they do occur.  A report issued last month by the University of Texas School of Law’s Human Rights Clinic found that at least 14 inmates have died from exposure to extreme heat since 2007 in state correctional facilities. ”

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