8 Prisons in Virginia Lack AC in 108-Degree Heat. I Am Stuck in One of Them.

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My bunk gets sweaty when I lay it in. The walls sweat, too — you can see it. We’re in an oven. It’s too hot. It was an average Tuesday, nearly four in the afternoon, and I was saturated with sweat. Everybody was. All we could do was corral around a stand-up fan and...

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