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Jul 18, 2023 · Vienna, Austria, 18 July 2023 – July 2023 saw the collision of two alarming trends.First, the hottest week on record; and second the release of new UNODC Data Matters figures showing that the global prison population is once again rising, having increased by 17 per cent since the start of the 21st century to 11.2 million people.
Dec 11, 2023 · Climate change has already spurred a new breed of Eighth Amendment challenges in the realm of prison conditions. 186 In 2013, several people imprisoned on Angola’s death row filed suit in federal court claiming that the prison’s sweltering climate was cruel and unusual, as the dangers of the heat index (which reached 195 degrees in 2011 187) were compounded by their medications ...
Jul 12, 2024 · July 12, 2024. In one of its first big decisions, Britain’s new Labour government on Friday announced the early release of thousands of prisoners, blaming the need to do so on a legacy of ...
May 22, 2023 · According to research by Julie Skarha, an environmental epidemiologist at Brown University’s School of Public Health, 271 prisoners died of heat-related causes in un-air-conditioned Texas ...
Sep 24, 2021 · Levenson outlines three main components of the criminal justice system that climate change stands to disrupt: physical infrastructure, crimes committed, and the nature of defense arguments made in court. The first category is perhaps the most obvious: prisons, jails, and courtrooms are “woefully ill-prepared to address climate disasters.”.
The year he was released from prison, in 2022, it was the third hottest summer on record in the US, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Apr 23, 2024 · In fact, the most shocking prison statistics come from the 1980s-2000s, when the “War on Drugs” swelled our penal population from around 300,000 to over 2 million, the highest in the world ...
