Environmental Rights for Incarcerated People
This resolution aims to declare that individuals in prisons and jails have a right to healthy and safe environments. It highlights that conditions in carceral facilities are often detrimental to health and supports efforts to improve these conditions. Citizens should be aware that this document seeks to ensure basic environmental rights for everyone, regardless of their legal status.
Key points
Recognition of incarcerated people's right to healthy and safe environments.
Right to information about environmental hazards in facilities and to discuss these issues.
Right to refuse work in unsafe conditions without fear of retaliation.
Support for legislative efforts to improve environmental conditions in prisons.
Status:
Expired
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