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Extreme Heat Is a Death Sentence in California Prisons
(WIB) – In 2015, Adrienne Boulware was sentenced to 15 years to life in California state prison in connection to the 2011 death of a man in Sacramento. But over the weekend, as temperatures hit 110 in the Central Valley town of Chowchilla, where Boulware was imprisoned at the Central California Women’s Facility, prisoner advocates and her family say she died due the heat nine years into her sentence.
Madera’s first Friend of the Library
This 1906 fire destroyed more than just the county’s records; it also destroyed the County Library, which was housed in the courthouse. In those first few months of 1893, there was a lot of work to be done to complete the creation of Madera County. Elections had to be held, and the entire mechanism of government had to be put into operation.
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