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Jul 19, 2023 · CNN — 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...
Oct 17, 2023 · Louisiana State Penitentiary, nicknamed Angola, is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States. The sprawling 28-acre facility houses 6,300 inmates in a series of prisons, called...
Apr 17, 2024 · The Louisianana State Penitentiary at Angola. Credit: kccornell via Wikimedia Commons. During the summer of 2023, people across Louisiana experienced record-breaking heat — and the stress and discomfort that came with it — as heat indexes climbed as high as 120 degrees.
Jul 30, 2024 · These punishing heat waves, which are expected to intensify in frequency and severity because of climate change, pose what prisoner advocates say is a deadly danger to much of the nation’s ...
Jun 18, 2024 · On Tuesday, lawyers representing people locked up at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola urged a federal judge to halt operations of the Farm Line any time the heat index rises above 88 degrees.
Jul 4, 2024 · Amid blistering summer temperatures, a federal judge ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation, saying they face “substantial risk of injury or death.” The state immediately appealed the decision.
Jul 10, 2023 · Last week a heat wave swept through the Gulf South, and while some residents can cool off with air conditioning, the vast majority of inmates in the state have no access to it.
