As climate change worsens, deadly prison heat is increasingly an everywhere problem

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By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, The AppealAug 29, 2024, 4:00 am189 pts
On June 19, Michael Broadway struggled to breathe inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a dilapidated Illinois state prison about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Outside, temperatures hovered in the 90s, with a heat index — what the temperature feels like — of nearly 100. Just days earlier, a…

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