The Effect of Climate Change on Incarcerated Individuals
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Alleen Brown, climate journalist, talks about "Climate and Punishment," a groundbreaking project for which she and her colleague Akil Harris received a 2023 Covering Climate Now journalism award. The project, which includes stories published by The Intercept, explores the effects of climate change and related disasters on prisons and incarcerated people within them.
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| 0:00.0 | It's The Brian Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Richard Bergen, filling in for Brian who is off today. |
| 0:15.4 | It's climate week in New York City and it's time to coincide with world leaders gathering |
| 0:20.0 | here for the annual UN General Assembly and the Climate Ambition Summit, which the UN |
| 0:25.3 | is holding tomorrow. |
| 0:27.2 | The Brian Lair Show is doing a segment every day this week for climate week NYC in conjunction |
| 0:32.1 | with Covering Climate Now, a media collaboration that includes this show and WNYC. |
| 0:38.6 | Covering climate now also announced its 2023 Journalism Award winners. |
| 0:43.9 | They recognize outstanding coverage of the climate emergency and its solutions. |
| 0:49.2 | And today we'll speak with one half of the winning duo and its multimedia category. |
| 0:54.2 | Aline Brown is a New York-based journalist focused on environmental justice and along |
| 0:59.3 | with Achille Harris. |
| 1:00.6 | She's been recognized for work that explores the intersection of mass incarceration and |
| 1:05.7 | the climate emergency. |
| 1:07.3 | The ground-breaking project appropriately called Climate and Punishment maps over 6,500 |
| 1:14.6 | correctional facilities across the country and analyzes them for heat, wildfire and flood |
| 1:21.0 | risk. |
| 1:22.0 | Aline joins me now here in studio. |
| 1:25.0 | Welcome to WNYC and congratulations. |
| 1:27.8 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:29.6 | And the listeners, we're talking about the intersection of climate change and mass incarceration |
| 1:34.5 | and I want to hear from you. |
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