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Is your city the next Cop City? How police are transforming neighborhoods and poisoning our planet

Facilities like Cop City are now being planned, have been approved, or are already operating in all 50 states except for Wyoming, Vermont, and North Dakota.

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They re killing us in here! – Workers World

They re killing us in here! – Workers World
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Air Conditioning in Prisons? Texas Nah, They Can Sweat it Out

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice must think its inmates are basically Texas cattle, as approximately 70% of its units lack full air conditioning.

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Texas inmates deprived of water and AC are fainting in jails that reach over 100 degrees

Texas inmates deprived of water and AC are fainting in jails that reach over 100 degrees
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Death Rates in Non-climate-Controlled Prisons Are Higher Than in Climate-controlled Institutions

According to a new study led by researchers at Brown University's School of Public Health, as climate change continues to increase the severity, frequency, and duration of heat waves, the approximately 160,000 people in Texas prisons - as well as those who work in these settings - face intense physical duress in prisons without climate controls.

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