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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

133 Degrees and No Ac: Kids at Angola Prison Kept in Potentially Deadly Heat

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133 Degrees and No Ac: Kids at Angola Prison Kept in Potentially Deadly Heat

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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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133 Degrees and No AC: Kids at Angola Prison Kept in Potentially Deadly Heat
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Children incarcerated at Louisiana's Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for nearly 24 hours a day as heat indexes spike.
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    For those wondering, it seems to be this prison run by the state of Louisiana https://doc.louisiana.gov/location/louisiana-state-penitentiary/

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      Yeah, I thought this was in Angola the country, but nope! This is in the US fuckin’ A!

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        Being in the USA should make less sense, being a 1st world country and all, but when I read it was in the USA I wasn’t surprised at all.

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      This comment needs to be higher

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