Sweltering heat in Louisiana prisons is a climate crisis no one is talking about
Across Louisiana and the across the South, incarcerated people, including children, are suffering in torturously hot prison conditions.
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Across Louisiana and the across the South, incarcerated people, including children, are suffering in torturously hot prison conditions.
Children in the custody of Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice being held in a former death row building at an adult prison are suffering dangerous heat conditions and routine isolation in their cells that experts say could cause serious and irreversible harm, according to a federal court filing Monday.
Children in the custody of Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice being held in a former death row building at an adult prison are suffering dangerous heat conditions and routine isolation in their cells that experts say could cause serious and irreversible harm, according to a federal court filing Monday.
New court filings reveal for the first time that children — almost all Black boys — are being placed in routine solitary confinement for 72 hours when they are detained in the former death row building of the nation’s largest adult maximum security prison — Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola.
By Amy Simonson and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN