ArticleNature sustainability2024
Hazardous heat exposure among incarcerated people in the United States.
Article in Nature sustainability, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mass incarceration as a climate justice issue.Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2026Article
- Higher temperatures are associated with increased interpersonal and self-inflicted violence-related Medicaid hospital visits in the United States.Communications sustainability · 2026Article
- "You feel like you going to die:" The intersection of mass incarceration and climate disasters.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2025Article
- A Critical Gap in Addressing Mental Health in Heat-Health Action Plans Worldwide.Current environmental health reports · 2025Review
- Trends in population exposure to compound extreme-risk temperature and air pollution across 35 European countries: a modelling study.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2025Article
- Cold-related Mortality in US State and Private Prisons: A Case-Crossover Analysis.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal Facility-Level Patterns of Summer Heat Exposure, Vulnerability, and Risk in United States Prison Landscapes.GeoHealth · 2024Article
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Abstract
Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of potentially hazardous heat conditions across the United States, putting the incarcerated population of 2 million at risk for heat-related health conditions. We evaluate the exposure to potentially hazardous heat for 4,078 continental US carceral facilities during 1982-2020. Results show that the number of hot days per year increased during 1982-2020 for 1,739 carceral facilities, primarily located in the southern United States. State-run carceral facilities in Texas and Florida accounted for 52% of total exposure, despite holding 12% of all incarcerated people. This highlights the urgency for enhanced infrastructure, health system interventions and treatment of incarcerated people, especially under climate change.
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