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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Decarceration is the best way prisons can adapt to climate change

Decarceration is the humane solution that should be considered on a national scale to combat climate crises in prisons. Locking fewer people up ...

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 Incarcerated Populations: Confronting ...

The Essay specifically examines how climate change- influenced weather events produce flooding and extreme temperatures in jails and prisons, placing the health ...

Hidden Hazards - Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

CDCR prisons are highly susceptible to climate hazards because they are located in or near remote areas, have an aging infrastructure and population, and are ...

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 ...

"Heat in US Prisons and Jails: Corrections and the Challenge of ...

This paper addresses two important but largely neglected questions: How will increased temperatures and heat waves caused by climate change affect prisons, ...

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

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

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

Prisons cannot operate on the cheap, and climate change is making them even costlier. We will pay, one way or the other — either by making them ...

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 ...

A Song of Ice and Fire: The Climate Crisis Inside Americaâ•Žs Prisons

historically assessed the phenomena of incarceration and climate change in isolation,20 effectively disregarding the prison population's unique ...

Implications for the Health of Incarcerated People in New Jersey

Climate Change Exacerbates Vulnerabilities · Many prison facilities lack full temperature control, leading to cells reaching up to 94°F during ...