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.
The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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