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PHOENIX — A prostitute doing time behind bars, Marcia Powell was temporarily moved one day last month to an outdoor holding pen with nothing but a chain-link-fence roof to shield her from the searing desert sun.
She lasted less than four hours.
Powell, 48, collapsed in the 108-degree heat and died at a hospital the next day, touching off a criminal investigation and bringing an abrupt end to a little-known practice in Arizona's prison system that inmate-rights activists found repellent.
Good god, how horrible. Noone deserves to die that way, noone deserves to be 'punished' that way.
I hope that the guards who did this to her are fully prosecuted.
Sounds like there are some very sadistic people running the prisons out there! A "scorching outdoor prison cell" should most definintely have some connection to cruel and unusual...........
I wonder how many other people they have tortured that way who didn't die.
According to the article in your post NOT EVEN FLORIDA has those outdoor cages!
"Donna Leone Hamm, director of the local nonprofit Middle Ground Prison Reform, called the outdoor cages barbaric.
"There's something medieval about it," she said. "It doesn't comport with any humane or community standard that we would ordinarily think of for any animal, including a human."
Arizona. Home of Sheriff Arpaio. And some think he's a hero.
And John McCain, Barry Goldwater....good point, AUM.
Did Arpaio have anything to do with this death or are your dragging him into this horrible tragedy because you saw an oppotunity to smear someone for political reasons?
The justice in this country is getting worse than in countries with cruel dictatorships!
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