How desperate US prisoners try to escape deadly heat
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With no air conditioning, a former prisoner describes lying in toilet water to survive brutal heat.

As temperatures rise, prisoners locked in cells without air conditioning - and the staff guarding them - are struggling.

Calvin Johnson spent 37 years in a Texas state prison, including 37 summers in a jail cell with no air conditioning.

On the countless blisteringly hot days, when temperatures...

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