'Like sitting in a sauna': Heat waves cause misery in WA prisons
Last summer's record-breaking temperatures caused a crisis for the state's incarcerated population — and it's set to happen all over again.
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Last summer's record-breaking temperatures caused a crisis for the state's incarcerated population — and it's set to happen all over again.
How last year’s record-breaking heat wave caused misery and chaos for Washington’s incarcerated population — and why it’s set to happen all over again.
SEATTLE — Washington state will pay $3.75 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of a man who died at Monroe Correctional Complex after his cancer went untreated despite repeated pleas.
SEATTLE — Washington state will pay $3.75 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of a man who died at Monroe Correctional Complex after his cancer went untreated despite repeated pleas.
As the pandemic ravaged prisons and jails, officials opted to force people into inhumane solitary confinement. HuffPost spoke to some who described how they “nearly broke.”