Thread by @IWW_IWOC, The heat is so bad, in the 100s in your cell. They [...]

The heat is so bad, in the 100s in your cell.

They won& #39;t even allow the food slot in the door to stay open for circulation

So you lay your mattress on the floor by the door at night to catch the air coming thru the crack under the door

Letter from AL

https://www.atlblackcross.org/index.php/2019/07/14/sos-from-holman-suffocating-heat/">https://www.atlblackcross.org/index.php...

You& #39;re doublebunked so you only get every other night on the floor by the door.

The guards sit in the dayroom with fans or in "the bubble" with A/C, glad the block is on lockdown so they can sit on their ass

People got conditions. Heat can kill them. Everybody moves slow.

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To stay hydrated, you fill a sprite bottle u keep around from the faucet

It tastes like shit and sometimes comes out the tap brown

Heat kills people. And not just by heart failure or dehydration, but by suicide as well.

You got nothing n time only passes second by second.

3/

Meat in a hot box. Spoiling.

It& #39;s always been this way - prisoners are just numbers right, so suffering and death is just arithmetic. if anybody is even counting.

It& #39;s coast to coast. And it& #39;s a system.

So connect with a local crew stepping up to fight.

4/

If you don& #39;t know who to connect with, or how to get something going yourself, mebbe we can help so reach out.

Maybe not by blood, but you got brothers, sisters, family inside whether you realize it or not

5/5

Relevant https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/heat-wave-expected-bake-two-thirds-nation-through-weekend-n1030636">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weat...

Heat wave expected to bake two-thirds of nation through weekend

High temperatures caused by a large dome of high pressure will send temperatures into the 90s and 100s in many parts.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/heat-wave-expected-bake-two-thirds-nation-through-weekend-n1030636

Last year, Texas prisoncrats had spent $7mil in court fighting the install of A/C.

Installing A/C = est. $4mil

At least 24 TX prisoners are documented to have died of heatstroke since 1998 https://mobile.twitter.com/theappeal/status/1035512237199261696">https://mobile.twitter.com/theappeal...

https://mobile.twitter.com/theappeal/status/1035512237199261696

And yes the article states 23 deaths in TX prisonsfrom heatstroke.

We know of at least one more since this article was written last year.

At Rikers.

What& #39;s the call NYC?

@nonewjails_nyc @nonewnypd @IWOC_NYC @CR_NYC @survivepunishNY @RevAbolitionNYC https://mobile.twitter.com/BklynDefender/status/1152281971193720832">https://mobile.twitter.com/BklynDefe...