For the second time, U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson ordered the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections to limit the agency’s use of Angola’s Farm Line workers during periods of extreme heat. “Plaintiffs have shown that incarcerated persons working on the Farm Line at LSP are at substantial risk of suffering serious harm under defendants’ current heat index, monitoring, and heat-alert practices,” he wrote in his order’s conclusion.

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