Climate Change and Incarceration

Climate Change and Incarceration | Think Global Health

This failure is deadly. Heat index temperatures have been logged at higher than 150°F inside prisons. People in solitary confinement, forced ...

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

Without consistent access to relief or safer environments, incarcerated people are punished with deadly heat, increased biological threats, ...

Climate Carceralism: The Future of Climate-Linked Prison Labor

Climate change describes “long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.” Prison ecology posits that prisons — and mass incarceration ...

How Mass Incarceration Contributes to Climate Change

mass incarceration, climate change, prison industrial complex, environmental sociology. Page 2. 2. Social Currents 00(0). Pellow (2018, 2019) has demonstrated ...

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

Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of potentially hazardous heat conditions across the United States, putting the ...

The Urgency of Decarceration in the Fight for Climate Justice

Climate as Punishment, Prisons as Polluters ... Increasingly extreme weather patterns caused by climate change expose incarcerated people to ...

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, ...

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

Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of potentially hazardous heat conditions across the United States, putting the ...

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

... climate crisis and the need for prison reform are closely associated: climate change impacts the vulnerable among us worst of all, and prisoners ...

Climate Change and Incarcerated Populations: Confronting ...

Climate change's deleterious impacts on incarcerated populations reveal productive points of intersection between movements for environmental justice, climate ...

Prisons are a daily environmental injustice

With their unwillingness to prepare for disasters due to global climate change, prisons (and other parts of the criminal legal system) stand to ...

Climate Change and Mass Incarceration | Columbia Law School

A New Report from Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Explores How Rising Temperatures May Impact America's Prisons ...

Climate Justice and Mass Incarceration

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

Prison Is Already Hell, and Climate Change Is Making It Worse

Prison Is Already Hell, and Climate Change Is Making It Worse ... In Texas prisons that lack air conditioning, temperatures routinely exceed ...

Overlapping Crises: Climate Disaster Susceptibility and Incarceration

Specifically, people who are incarcerated may be more vulnerable to climate hazards due to overcrowding in prisons and limited infrastructure, ...

Climate Change and the Threat to U.S. Jails and Prisons

By Laurie L. Levenson, Published on 10/07/22.

Climate and Punishment - The Intercept

In sweltering Texas, dozens of prisons lack air conditioning. With the climate crisis causing temperatures to rise, the ill effects of dangerous heat in ...

As Climate Change Worsens, Deadly Prison Heat ... - Director's Picks

As Climate Change Worsens, Deadly Prison Heat Is Increasingly an Everywhere Problem. Summary. As climate change drives more extreme heat waves across the U.S., ...

Editorial: Changing climate is turning prisons into torture chambers ...

Brutal heat is especially lethal for aging inmates. It exacerbates already challenging mental health problems, which are rampant in prisons. It ...

Climate Change and the Threat to U.S. Jails and Prisons

nectivity of Mass Incarceration and Climate Change, OUR DAILY PLANET (Sept. 2, 2020), https://www.ourdailyplanet.com/story/the-staggering ...