Event Description
Low income, Black, and other marginalized communities are far more likely to bear the negative impacts of environmental degradation and pollution than wealthier and whiter communities. They are also the ones most harmed by mass incarceration. These twin injustices are not coincidental. They are intimately linked. Participants in this online session will explain the historical and economic reasons why prisons and jails are all too often built on the least economically viable and most environmentally dangerous locations in the country—including exhausted coal mining and logging sites, active Superfund cleanup sites, and recently closed landfills. We will also explore the implications of this situation on the health and well-being of the people who are incarcerated or work there.

Attendance
no limit

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Call for Papers Information &/or Deadline (in UTC-6)
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Contact
Jay Aronson
aronson@andrew.cmu.edu

Organization
Carnegie Mellon University Department of History
https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/history/

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