This includes providing AZT and other drugs to inmates with AIDS, repairing teeth and providing counseling or appropriate medication to inmates with mental health problems. Prisons are air-conditioned. Only seven of the 55 major state prisons in Florida have air-conditioning in the living areas, and many of these are located in South Florida. Union CI was built in 1913 and has since been renovated with air-conditioning in some areas, such as its hospital. Corrections Mental Health Institution, which houses mentally ill inmates, employs both HRS and Corrections staff.
Prisons built under the privatization contract are air-conditioned.
Inmates who get life sentences don't really stay in prison for life. Offenders will serve a life term for any crime committed today for which they are sentenced to life.