The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. It's  about 25% of the world's incarcerated population with over 2 million people held in federal, state and local jails. We're also seeing unprecedented extreme climate disasters in the form of wildfires, heatwaves, drought, super-storms and more. 
The aging infrastructure and failing logistics systems of many prisons are unprepared for the emerging climate crisis. The intersection of these two crises have created a pattern of human rights abuses across the country, and elected officials and their "regimes of cruelty" from California to Texas to Florida are only making matters worse.   
In our latest episode, we discuss how the climate crisis is impacting  prison populations with journalist Alleen Brown (@alleenbrown).   
Alleen Brown is New York-based reporter, focused on environmental justice issues. Her work has been published by The  Nation, In These  Times, YES! Magazine, the Intercept and various Twin Cities publications. 
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Outro// Warren Zevon "Prison Grove"  
Links// 

Allen Brown: Climate and Punishment (https://bit.ly/3usrp39) 
Alleen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlleenBrown 
G&R: Policing the Line 3 Pipeline feat. Alleen Brown (https://bit.ly/3re8Tcz)  

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PSA//
The Certain Days collective will be releasing our 22nd calendar this coming autumn. In lieu of a 2023 theme, we are doing  an open call for abolition-related art and article submissions to  feature in the calendar, which hangs in more than 6,000 homes,  workplaces, prison cells, and community spaces around the world. We  encourage contributors to submit both new and existing work. We  especially seek submissions from people in prison or jail, so please  forward this call to any prison-based artists and writers.
For more info check out https://www.certaindays.org/