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UNITED STATES: Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced this weekend that it would install cooling systems in seven prisons to make conditions more bearable in the summer heat.
It insisted the installation was not in response to numerous lawsuits alleging that high prison temperatures amounted to improperly cruel punishment.
A University of Texas report revealed last month that at least 14 Texan inmates have died from heat exposure since 2007.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention