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FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, a prison guard on horseback watches inmates return from a farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. As summer approaches, corrections officials throughout the country must deal with prisoners’ potentially fatal exposure to extreme heat. Advocates say rising temperatures are a threat to an increasingly mentally ill and aging prisoner population. Lawsuits over heat conditions in jails and prisons have been filed in Arizona, Wisconsin, Illinois, Louisiana, Georgia and Delaware. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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