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For Incarcerated Workers, Summer Heat Can Be a Death Sentence

Incarcerated workers are subject to cruel--and dangerously hot--conditions in the summer. This will only worsen with climate change.

Ella Fassler

Ella Fassler is an independent writer, researcher and prison abolitionist.
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