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United States: the growing crisis of heatwave deaths in America’s prisons
Over the past two decades, nearly 13,000 people have perished behind bars during America’s summer months. However, many of these deaths are not typically attributed to heat, the product of poor death-counting practices that have led to an undercount of heat-related deaths for decades. Still, deaths have only become more commonplace as heat waves have spread across the country in record numbers over the past several years, disproportionately harming Black people on both sides of the bars.
Source: Capital B (27/06/2024)