STORY SUBMISSION

Submit a heat-related story for review.

Submit a heat-related story for review.

Submit a heat-related story for review.

Degrees of Humanity reviews firsthand accounts before any story is considered for publication. Submissions require internal review, consent confirmation, privacy review, and factual verification before publication.

Degrees of Humanity reviews firsthand accounts before any story is considered for publication. Submissions require internal review, consent confirmation, privacy review, and factual verification before publication.

Degrees of Humanity reviews firsthand accounts before any story is considered for publication. Submissions require internal review, consent confirmation, privacy review, and factual verification before publication.

This form is only for firsthand accounts related to heat, temperature, ventilation, cooling, or air-conditioning conditions in correctional facilities. Please do not use this form for emergencies, legal complaints, medical requests, grievances, or reports of immediate danger.

This form is only for firsthand accounts related to heat, temperature, ventilation, cooling, or air-conditioning conditions in correctional facilities. Please do not use this form for emergencies, legal complaints, medical requests, grievances, or reports of immediate danger.

Do not include Social Security numbers, inmate identification numbers, private medical records, home addresses, or other highly sensitive personal information.

Do not include Social Security numbers, inmate identification numbers, private medical records, home addresses, or other highly sensitive personal information.

Name

Email or phone

Relationship to the issue

Facility name, optional

Approximate date or time period

Description of the heat-related experience

How the heat affected health, safety, work, programming, family, or daily life

Permission to follow up

Permission to quote

Preferred attribution

Degrees of Humanity may edit submissions for length, spelling, grammar, privacy, and clarity, but will not intentionally change the substance of the writer’s experience.

Degrees of Humanity may edit submissions for length, spelling, grammar, privacy, and clarity, but will not intentionally change the substance of the writer’s experience.

Degrees of Humanity may edit submissions for length, spelling, grammar, privacy, and clarity, but will not intentionally change the substance of the writer’s experience.

Submissions are intake only and will not publish automatically. All submissions require internal review, consent confirmation, privacy review, and factual verification before publication.

I confirm that this story is my own and is truthful to the best of my knowledge. I grant Degrees of Humanity a nonexclusive, royalty-free right to review, edit for length and clarity, publish, reproduce, and share my submission in its website, social media, fundraising, educational, advocacy, grant, media, and printed materials. I understand that submission does not guarantee publication.

I confirm that this story is my own and is truthful to the best of my knowledge. I grant Degrees of Humanity a nonexclusive, royalty-free right to review, edit for length and clarity, publish, reproduce, and share my submission in its website, social media, fundraising, educational, advocacy, grant, media, and printed materials. I understand that submission does not guarantee publication.

I confirm that this story is my own and is truthful to the best of my knowledge. I grant Degrees of Humanity a nonexclusive, royalty-free right to review, edit for length and clarity, publish, reproduce, and share my submission in its website, social media, fundraising, educational, advocacy, grant, media, and printed materials. I understand that submission does not guarantee publication.

I approve the attribution option I selected above and understand that Degrees of Humanity will not disclose my name publicly beyond that selection.

I approve the attribution option I selected above and understand that Degrees of Humanity will not disclose my name publicly beyond that selection.

I approve the attribution option I selected above and understand that Degrees of Humanity will not disclose my name publicly beyond that selection.