Lawrence Cox often found himself drenched in sweat while pushing heavy kitchen carts inside High Desert State Prison in Susanville, California. He and other incarcerated workers had no access to air conditioning, so they came up with a strategy for working in extreme heat.
“We wet our clothes, or wet our shirt and we put it on, and that’ll help draw some of the heat out of our body and keep us cool,” he said. “You do have to repeat that process sometimes, because it’s so hot, the shirt dries real quick.”
