Details emerge in Goodyear inmate's heat-related death
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Marcia Powell died of heat-related causes in May after being left in an outdoor cage for hours.
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Details emerge in inmate's heat-related death
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Disturbing new details emerged Wednesday in the death of Marcia Powell, the former inmate at an Arizona state prison who died from heat-related causes after being left in an outdoor cage for several hours.
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Coroner's report confirms heat death of Perryville prisoner
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Marcia Powell died in holding cell outside Arizona State Prison, examiner ruled death an accident.
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Coroner's report confirms heat death of prisoner
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Marcia Powell died in a holding cell outside of an Arizona State Prison due to environmental heat exposure.
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"Dog Days Turn Deadly in America's Prisons"
Crime & Federalism (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Mother Jones has this disturbing article about prison conditions: The summer of 2009 hadn't even begun when Marcia Powell, a 48-year old inmate at Arizona’s Perryville Prison, was baked to death. Powell, whom court records show had a history of schizophrenia, substance abuse, and mild mental retardation, was serving a 27-month sentence for prostitution. At about 11 a.m. on May...
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An invisible woman will be laid to rest
the 13th juror (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
For most of her adult life, 48-year-old Marcia Powell was invisible. Then she died, and slowly came into view. Powell had been in and out of jail for decades, unable to overcome mental illness. She roamed the streets and had been in and out of jail for decades. After offering oral sex to an undercover police officer in exchange for a few dollars, Powell found herself in what has become one of Arizona's...