environmental justice in the LA prison complex

Climate Pelicans' Brief

All US citizens have the right to a clean and healthy environment under the 5th and 14th amendments to the Constitution. This week, Cori and Jill dig into how this does not extend to prisoners in Louisiana, and discuss the criminal justice-environmental justice overlap. This topic is new to the landscape of academic literature, and your Climate Pelicans are excited to bring you some food for thought about.

Original music by Bola

Cover art by Cori Salter

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References

1. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol31_2004/winter2004/irr_hr_winter04_shoplifting/
2. Neveen Hammad, “Shackled to Economic Appeal: How Prison Labor Facilitates Modern Slavery While Perpetuating Poverty in Black Communities,” Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, no. Summer 2019 (2019).
3. Albonetti, C.A. (1997). Sentencing under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Effects of Defendant Characteristics, Guilty Pleas, and Departures on Sentence Outcomes for Drug Offenses, 1991-1992. Law & Society Review, 31(4): 789–822. https://doi.org/10.2307/3053987
4. Steffensmeier, D., Ulmer, J., & Kramer, J. (2006). The Interaction of Race, Gender, and Age in Criminal Sentencing: The Punishment Cost of Being Young, Black, and Male. Criminology. 36: 763 - 798. 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1998.tb01265.x.
5. Freiburger, T. L., & Hilinski, C. M. (2013). An Examination of the Interactions of Race and Gender on Sentencing Decisions Using a Trichotomous Dependent Variable. Crime & Delinquency, 59(1): 59–86. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128708330178
6. https://gejp.es.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/sitefiles/publications/FINAL%20PUBLISHED%20VERSION.pdf
7. Prisons as LULUs [PDF] wiley.com