Trenton Bishop discusses sweltering conditions in Kansas prisons and initiates a call to action for solidarity with residents of KDOC. “We're already suffering. We—we're already going through what we're going through. And I know the consensus is, ‘well, let those criminals sweat,’ but we're humans. We're human beings too. And this A/C thing is making it very hard to function. Like I can't get a full eight hours of sleep because I'm waking up tossing and turning.”

Liberation Lit sent Ronald Quiceno, incarcerated at Hutchinson Correctional Facility, a copy of “Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System: by Alec Karakatsanis. He wrote us this letter to tell us what he thought of the book.