Dear Friends, NRCAT invites our colleagues and friends nationwide to join the Texas Prison Community Advocates’ upcoming webinar, “85 to Stay Alive: Answering the Call” on Thursday, February 6 at 1pm ET/10am PT. NRCAT’s Executive Director, Rev. Ron Stief, will moderate the webinar which will feature panelists addressing the problem of extreme temperatures in prisons, jails, and detention centers. The panel will include multi-faith presenters, impacted people who have experienced prison heat first-hand, and community advocates. The 85 refers to the upper limit of the 65 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit that the Texas code calls for in all occupied areas of jails. High temperatures, coupled with a lack of air-conditioning, aging cooling equipment and poor ventilation, create conditions of torture inside many of our nation’s carceral facilities in the summer. The sometimes-deadly impact of extreme heat on the physical and mental health of those who live and work in prisons, jails, and detention centers is a national epidemic that is getting worse by the year with climate change. |
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