The Intercept Launches “Climate and Punishment”

The Intercept, February 12, 2022: The Intercept Launches “Climate and Punishment”

“The Intercept has launched ‘Climate and Punishment,’ a data-driven investigation by reporter Alleen Brown on the effects of the climate crisis on incarcerated people.

“The project harnesses datasets for heat risk, wildfire risk, and flood risk and juxtaposes them against a federal government index of facilities from across the United States’s sprawling mass incarceration system. Our findings reveal dire conditions in prisons across the country – conditions that are set to deteriorate as the climate crisis worsens – and highlights the political figures and institutional morass that are leaving these communities at risk.”

Additional reading:

Medium, January 11, 2021: How the U.S. Prison System Contributes to Climate Change

Eos, November 10, 2020: An Unfought Geoscience Battle in U.S. Prisons

The New Republic, September 18, 2019: The Climate Disaster Inside America’s Prisons

Columbia Law School, August 31, 2015: Climate Change and Mass Incarceration