The city’s station of Correction is taking the heat following a judge’s determination that it has not been properly accommodating temperature-sensitive inmates. Corrections officials had asked the court to terminate a series of “heat orders” issued by the past two years, which set up strict regulations governing the treatment of prisoners whose health is threatened by high temperatures. But a watchdog agency charged with monitoring city prison conditions claimed that less than a third of…

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