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Families of Victims Who Died From Heat in Prison Fight to Prevent More Deaths

4+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1702+ words) Over 200, 000 incarcerated people face deadly summer heat in California and Texas. The Central California Women's Facility, the nation's largest women's prison, is in Chowchilla, where temperatures reached past 90 degrees by the second week of May. The prison lacks air conditioning…...