NATIONAL BRIEFING / ARIZONA
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
The corrections department is ending its use of outdoor prison cells after an inmate died in triple-digit heat last month. Marcia Powell, 48, died from heat-related complications after collapsing in an uncovered outdoor cell May 19. Powell had been in the cell for nearly four hours.
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