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We think of how climate change affects weather severity, fires and hurricanes, sea level rise and dam level fall, endangered insects and animals and plants, climate refugees and those who labor outdoors. Do you know who else is affected? The people we incarcerate.

Extreme heat is killing people in prisons and a new study provides the first epidemiological evidence of the link between the climate crisis and prison mortality.

https://grist.org/equity/new-study-people-dying-extreme-heat-in-prisons-us