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Jails and prisons often fail to protect incarcerated people during natural disasters

By Benika Dixon, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
J. Carlee Purdum, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Houston
Tara Goddard, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University

Prisons and jails are difficult to evacuate when wildfires or storms approach. Many of these facilities lack evacuation plans and may keep incarcerated people on-site instead of moving them to safety.

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