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

Days of extreme heat without access to enough water and cooled air become deadlier for an aging prison population.

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. Hagerty was scheduled for parole on August 2. She had been sentenced to four years in prison for not meeting the many requirements of her 10-year probation sentence for a fight with an ex-girlfriend.

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