Carceral and Climate

How Extreme Weather Threatens Inmates' Eighth Amendment Rights

Climate Change and the Carceral System: How Extreme Weather Threatens Inmates' Eighth Amendment Rights. Ford-Plotkin, Vaughn.

Mass Incarceration and Climate Change Are Not Separate Issues

Around the same time that climate change began to call public attention, mass incarceration hit a record high in this country. Like climate ...

Climate Cages: Connecting Migration, the Carceral State, Extinction ...

This article addresses the unmapped linkage of mass incarceration and encagement as responses to climate change and the coronavirus. I coin the ...

Carceral and Climate (In)Justices, and Health Inequities: A Call for ...

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Berkeley team reports on prison ventilation conditions during COVID ...

Noth, an associate researcher in Environmental Health Sciences at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, has won a state grant to calculate the ...

Carceral and Climate Crises and Health Inequities - OUCI

Climate change and hyperincarceration are causes and consequences of structural racism and economic deprivation, which disproportionately affect structurally ...

Carceral and Climate Crises and Health Inequities: A Call for ...

Carceral and Climate Crises and Health Inequities: A Call for Greater Transparency, Accountability, and Human Rights Protections · zona prison ...

Frequently Asked Questions | Urban Institute

... incarcerated in each site prison. The climate surveys - developed by research teams, staff, and incarcerated people in each site - will be administered on ...

Advancing Public Health Interventions to Address the Harms of the ...

... incarceration, particularly given that carceral processes do not ... Connecting the dots between mass incarceration, health inequity, and climate change.

Watch: Egypt's Carceral Climate Summit

“All that is asked of us is that we insist on standing up for what is right. We are not required to be victorious in our stand for what's right.

Climate Warming Spells Catastrophe for US Jails & Prisons

Tracking with climate change, in recent decades, the number of dangerous humid heat days in carceral facilities has increased, with those in ...

Decarceration is the best way prisons can adapt to climate change

As wards of the state, incarcerated people are completely dependent on prison management for their safety. They cannot flee, they have no ...

Climate Cages: Connecting Migration, the Carceral State, Extinction ...

I coin the phrase, climate cages, to highlight how public policy responses to atmospheric dynamics limit mobility, worsen prison conditions, and increase ...

“Because we're dying in here”: A study of environmental vulnerability ...

... carceral facilities increase incarcerated people's vulnerability to environmental hazards exacerbated by climate change. We present qualitative data from ...

OECM Grand Rounds | Occupational, Environmental, and Climate ...

Climate change and incarcerated populations: Carceral settings and occupational/environmental hazards w/ Betsey Noth, PhD, MPH, CIH.

Prison abolition: as COVID-19 and climate change hit ... - Branch Out

The fight for climate justice must put mass incarceration at the forefront of organizing efforts, as incarcerated people are on the ...

Revealed: Three-quarters of prisons in England and Wales face ...

Experts tell Carbon Brief that preparing the nation's aged, overcrowded prison estate for climate change will be a major challenge for the new ...

In Alaska, Advocates Say Reducing Prison Population Is a Key ...

For environmental advocates in Alaska, these construction projects are deeply misguided. They view climate impacts to the state's prisons as an ...

Exploring Prison Ecology - Environmental Studies Program

In this Annual Report, the UCSB Prison Environmental Justice Project provides data, stories, and analysis of these challenges in great detail.

Incarcerated Populations and Healthcare: Myths and Facts - News

... incarcerated populations and those impacted by the carceral system. ... climate change on incarceration and societal re-entry. Their ...