The cruel and inhumane conditions that many prison inmates live in have been well documented. On this edition of Your Call, we'll discuss environmental factors that can make prison even more difficult, and in some cases, deadly.
Polluted land and water affects inmates, guards, local residents as well as the local land, flora and fauna. Links are being made between the traditional environmental movement, and advocates for prisoners. These groups are working together to strategize on blocking or shutting down prisons in toxic locations, and the alliance is working on developing new legal strategies.
Guests:
Panagioti Tsolkas, co-founder of the Prison Ecology Project
Professor David Pellow, director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at UC Santa Barbara
Richard Mosley, organizer with the Fayette Health Justice Campaign and former inmate at SCI Fayette
Web Resources:
What is Critical Environmental Justice? by David Pellow
America's Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration
Fayette Health Justice Campaign
California Prison Moratorium Project
