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United States: toxic prisons teach us that environmental justice needs abolition
Prisons, jails and detention centers are placed in locations where environmental hazards such as toxic landfills, floods and extreme heat are the norm.
Source: EHN (08/01/2025)
See on this subject, our article Prisons in transition.