What It Was Like Inside a Stifling Cuyahoga County Jail Without Power

What It Was Like Inside a Stifling Cuyahoga County Jail Without Power

Cuyahoga County officials say no one incarcerated in the jail needed treatment for heat illness. People inside say it was life-threatening.

‘I’m about to die here’: What a power outage and heatwave were like in a jail with no AC – The Land

As temperatures neared 100 in June, a power outage cut off cool air to the poorly ventilated county jail in downtown Cleveland. With most windows sealed shut, it got dangerously hot, people inside say. [Gus Chan for The Marshall Project] This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project – Cleveland, a nonprofit news team covering Ohio’s criminal justice systems. Sign up for their Cleveland newsletter and Facebook Group, and fol…