In Brutal Summer Heat, Prisoners Say Their Cells Are Like “Stifling Hot Coffins”

July 3, 2023

By: Victoria Law, Truthout

Liz Hagerty before her 2021 imprisonment.
Photo courtesy of Martha Romero

Shortly after midnight this past Friday, guards found 37-year-old Elizabeth Hagerty dead in her unair-conditioned Texas prison cell. The day before, temperatures had reached nearly 100 degrees….

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