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"Dog Days Turn Deadly in America's Prisons"

Mother Jones has this disturbing article about prison conditions:  The summer of 2009 hadn't even begun when Marcia Powell, a 48-year old inmate at Arizona?s Perryville Prison, was baked to death. Powell, whom court records show had a history of schizophrenia, substance abuse, and mild mental retardation, was serving a 27-month sentence for prostitution. At about 11 a.m. on May 19, a day when the Arizona sun had driven the temperature to 108 degrees, she was parked outdoors in an unroofed, wire-fenced holding cell while awaiting transfer to another part of the prison. A deputy warden and two guards had been stationed in a control center 20 yards away, but nearly four hours had passed when she was found collapsed on the floor of the human cage...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).