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Volunteer wildfire firefighters at a wildfire training course. Two people walk towards a fire burning. Most of the photo is smoke.

WA prisoners struggle with wildfire smoke as ventilation upgrades go unfunded

BY: - September 25, 2023

When the wildfire smoke arrives, Harry Whitman has nowhere to go.  “When there’s smoke or there’s a fire, they lock you in,” Whitman said.  Whitman, president of the advocacy group Black Prisoners’ Caucus, is incarcerated at Airway Heights Corrections Center. The prison is located less than 10 miles away from Medical Lake, Washington, where Gray […]