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  1. ‘Help us, we can’t breathe’: Inmate at California women’s prison dies during heat wave

    A woman incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla died Saturday during a statewide heat wave and prisoner advocates are blaming her death on heat exhaustion.
    (8 July 2024)
    sfchronicle.com/california/art

    #prison #heatwave #cruelandunusual #CCWF #womenprisoners #prisondeaths

  2. In a 6-3 ruling, the court said #homelessness is not a status protected by the #EighthAmendment’s prohibition on #CruelAndUnusual punishment, even when a community offers #NoAccess to indoor #shelter for #HomelessPeople.

    So much for love thy neighbor

    #law #SCOTUS #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #SupremeCourt #AntiCamping #laws #PublicSpace #homeless

  3. A #lawsuit filed in #federalcourt Tuesday calls a transgender woman's #pretrialdetention in #Maryland #cruelandunusual. Despite her #femininity and #genderidentity as a #woman, Ms. Gilliam was forced to #live and #shower with #male #inmates at the Baltimore jail, the law firm said. "During this time, she was #harassed by both #officers and #inmates and ultimately #sexuallyassaulted by another #inmate," and the jail did nothing when she reported the rape.

    cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/tra