Carceral and Climate

Climate Carceralism: The Future of Climate-Linked Prison Labor

This Note synthesizes existing scholarship to predict that the need for climate-linked labor will spur prison growth, and urges reformers to develop theories ...

Climate Change and Incarceration | Think Global Health

Both incarceration and climate are associated with poor health outcomes. Both disproportionately impact marginalized communities.

Heat, floods, pests, disease, and death: What climate change means ...

As expected, unusual heat was associated with higher overall mortality. The researchers found for every 10 degree increase above the prison ...

Climate Justice and Mass Incarceration - Harvard SEAS

People who are incarcerated are disproportionately vulnerable to climate hazards, and this population is often ignored and/or excluded from ...

Transforming Correctional Culture and Climate

US correctional facilities are piloting more humane living environments that are grounded in principles of restorative justice to support rehabilitation and ...

How Climate Change & Mass Incarceration Go Hand-in-Hand

Alongside the incredibly dire socioeconomic consequences mass incarceration causes, prisons harm their internal populations via air pollution, ...

Study evaluates impacts of summer heat in U.S. prison environments

Climate change is just aggravating the fact that prisons are not designed to enable incarcerated populations to moderate their own exposure to ...

Carceral and climate crises and health inequities: A call for greater ...

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 ...

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

How Mass Incarceration Contributes to Climate Change

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Prisons and the climate crisis: more than 40 Member States gather ...

The Group of Friends discussed how to mitigate the impact of climate change and related disruptions on prison and offender management.

Hazardous heat widespread in U.S. jails and prisons; worsened by ...

... carceral facilities in the continental United States. ... incarceration in the country but also face disproportionate impacts from climate change.

How prisons fall short in protecting the incarcerated from climate ...

To date, Colorado has only evacuated one prison due to wildfires. In 2013, the Royal Gorge fire forced a facility in southern Colorado to ...

Hidden Hazards - Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

... carceral system is not prepared to respond to climate ... Lastly, other state carceral systems have failed to keep incarcerated people safe during a climate ...

Climate change's higher temperatures increase suffering at US ...

People who work in carceral facilities, such as prisons, jails, detention centers and juvenile facilities, must bear extreme temperatures as well. In summer ...

Hazardous heat exposure among incarcerated people in the United ...

... incarcerated people, especially under climate change. Similar ... Annual disparity between incarcerated and locations without carceral ...

(PDF) Carceral and Climate Crises and Health Inequities: A Call for ...

COVID‐19 has impaired lower‐income, food‐insecure communities, which disproportionately absorb people released from prison and jail. Reentry support is sorely ...

Hazardous Heat and Humidity Is Widespread in U.S. Jails and Prisons

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

Climate Control for Extreme Temperatures in Corrections (2024)

Every carceral facility should implement standards to minimize extreme temperature exposure indoors and outdoors and adopt steps for prevention and mitigation.

Uncovering Climate Hazards in California's Prisons

... prison system is not prepared to respond to climate emergencies that threaten the well-being of the state's incarcerated population. Their ...