From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Last week was brutally hot in Philadelphia; heat indexes broke triple digits. For 300 people incarcerated at the Detention Center, the oldest of Philadelphia’s four jails on State Road, they cruelly had to endure this without air-conditioning.
It didn’t have to be that way. This time last year, the dorms of the Detention Center were completely empty.
In a news conference last Tuesday, City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart said that the Department of Prisons is at a “tipping point” as currently the city’s jails are “unsafe.” She said that when entering the housing pods of the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, the city’s largest jail, “inmates are screaming, begging to talk to their families, screaming to be let out.” Continue reading >>>
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