It never cools off, day or night,” said Shannon Zeno, who’s been inside Angola for 27 years. With no air conditioning, broken ventilation systems, and failing infrastructure, temperatures soar above 100°F inside the buildings during Louisiana’s stifling summer heat. That’s where I’m at with them,” Zeno said, who filed a grievance about the conditions that also asks for protection from retaliation. Conditions inside the dormitories routinely reach heat indices of 113°F, even at night, even as 13 wall-mounted and floor fans attempt to circulate air. “We’re sentencing people to exposure to really high heat conditions without any type of relief,” said Andrea Armstrong, a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans who specializes in prison conditions and constitutional law.