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Could air conditioning help prevent extreme violence in prisons? Research suggests so

Quoted: Anita Mukherjee is an assistant professor in the business school at the University of Wisconsin. She says that Georgia pattern mirrors what she found in a Mississippi study.

ANITA MUKHERJEE: Yeah. So the question that we started out with is, what is the effect of, let’s say, a hot day versus a moderate temperature day on acts of violence in prison.