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In Brutal Summer Heat, Prisoners Say Their Cells Are Like “Stifling Hot Coffins”

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By Victoria Law, Amber Akemi Piatt, Abby Cunniff, Candice Bernd Verified
| Truthout Verified
Shortly after midnight this past Friday, guards found 37-year-old Elizabeth Hagerty dead in her unair-conditioned Texas prison cell. The day before, temperatures had reached nearly 100 degrees. Hagerty was scheduled for parole on August 2. She had been sentenced to four years in prison for not meeting the many requirements of her 10-year probation sentence for a fight with an ex-girlfriend.
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Experts Cite the Health Impacts of Incarceration as US Life Expectancy Falls

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By Fred Clasen-Kelly Verified, Edwin Rubis, Zane McNeill, Amber Akemi Piatt
| Truthout Verified
After spending 38 years in the Alabama prison system, one of the most violent and crowded in the nation, Larry Jordan felt lucky to live long enough to regain his freedom. The decorated Vietnam War veteran had survived prostate cancer and hepatitis C behind bars when a judge granted him early release late last year. “I never gave up hope,” said Jordan, 74, who lives in Alabama.
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These Women Face Death by Incarceration, But They’re Organizing for Their Lives

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By Victoria Law, Amber Akemi Piatt, Sharon Zhang Verified, Edwin Rubis
| Truthout Verified
When she was 20 years old, Sheená King was sentenced to life without parole. Two years earlier, King’s boyfriend had coerced her into fatally shooting another woman, threatening to kill her and her family if she refused. She was convicted of murder, which, in Pennsylvania, mandates life without parole.
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