From Truthout:
Children incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola prison have been locked in windowless cells for nearly 24 hours a day without air conditioning as heat indexes in the area reach up to 133 degrees.
The youth, almost all of whom are Black, are being detained in the former death row building of the nation’s largest adult maximum security prison, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Louisiana. One child also described being maced and thrown against the wall by staff in court filings.
In an emergency filing submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana on Monday, the ACLU and other legal groups asked the court to move the kids out of the unit immediately and cease transfers of children to adult carceral institutions. Continue reading >>>
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