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Human impact
Extreme heat is not an inconvenience when you cannot leave it.
Thousands of people live and work in correctional facilities without consistent access to climate-controlled housing. Prolonged exposure to extreme heat can place health, safety, and basic dignity at risk—especially for people with medical vulnerabilities and little ability to change their surroundings.
Heat becomes a health issue when relief is out of reach.
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Why heat matters
A serious health issue, not a seasonal discomfort.
Limited ability to leave
People housed in correctional environments often cannot choose cooler rooms, move freely, or access relief when temperatures rise.
Greater medical risk
Age, chronic health conditions, medications, and mental health needs can all increase vulnerability during extreme heat.
Safety for everyone inside
Cooling improvements can support safer conditions for people who live, work, visit, and provide care inside facilities.
Practical solution
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Identify the Need
We work with facility leadership to understand conditions, priorities, and operational limitations.
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Design a Practical Solution
We coordinate appropriate equipment, installation planning, funding, and project partners.
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Deliver and Measure
We help implement the project and document its effect so successful approaches can inform future work.
Our first approved project
Central Florida Reception Center
Degrees of Humanity is preparing a pilot cooling project at Central Florida Reception Center in Orlando. The project is intended to provide a practical, measurable model for improving conditions within an occupied correctional environment.
Project status
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Facility context
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Funding goal
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Project description
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Evidence
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People housed without climate-controlled living areas in Florida
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Number of unconditioned housing units
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Typical summer heat or heat-index context
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Pilot housing capacity
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Project funding goal
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How donations create progress
Your gift helps move a real project forward.
Donations may help support cooling equipment, installation and electrical work, project planning and logistics, documentation and measurement, and future facility projects.
Cooling equipment
Installation and electrical work
Project planning and logistics
Documentation and measurement
Future facility projects
Credibility
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Nonprofit and tax status
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Financial transparency
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Project partners
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Stories and progress
Progress update
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Explainer
Why cooling is a public-interest issue
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In-kind support opportunity
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Human dignity should not depend on the temperature outside.
Help us bring practical cooling solutions to places where people have little ability to change the conditions around them.