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Death in hot jail cell highlights national issue
The death of Jerome Murdough in a New York City jail cell underscores heat risk in U S prisons as aging, medicated inmates may struggle to cool. Experts warn climate change and population shifts raise deadly temperatures in lockups nationwide.
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New York
Ricinaiers Island
David Fathi
American Civil Liberty Union
National Prison Project
Wisconsin
Arizona
Fathi
United States
Jerome Murdough
Murdough
Bureau of Justice
Bureau
University of Texas School of Law
Human Rights Clinic
Alma Murdough
Cheryl Warner
Queens Borough of