"We are all outside because we feel these residents in this facility, the St. Louis city workhouse, they deserve to have air. We don’t know if they're guilty or they're innocent. And even if they are guilty, they still deserve air. I mean, they're baking like baked potatoes.
"I saw on a live stream yesterday a lot of people saying, ‘Well, I work in a warehouse where there’s no air.’ But that’s different; you're not constantly in that place. You get to go home. You get to go on breaks. You get to go to your car. Here, this is everyday life for them, 24/7. It’s every day. Every day! So I’m sweating and hot standing out here; I can’t imagine how hot they feel with closed-in windows, lights on, in an old brick building."
Precious Jones, photographed with her children and nephews protesting the city workhouse in north St. Louis on July 22, 2017.