Like agricultural machines, people who work the Farm Line work straight through many days with 90-degree heat, or worse. Then, in the summer of 2024, a federal court extended heat protections for the incarcerated men working on Angola’s Farm Line. In response to the plaintiffs’ request in 2024 for a halt to the Farm Line during hot summer days, Jackson did not order any work stoppage. Instead, Jackson instituted very specific heat protections for Farm Line workers. Even after last summer’s Temporary Restraining Order expired, the DOC could not simply accept the new Farm Line heat protections.