Talk:Incarceration in the United States

Wiki Education assignment: Geographies of Energy and Sustainability

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 4 January 2024 and 15 March 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cyclegirl22 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Irishyseni.

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Wiki Education assignment: Gender and Public Policy

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Wiki Education assignment: Senior Seminar

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Environmental Effects of Prisons in the U.S.

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be adding a section under the "Effects" tab on this article regarding the Environmental Effects of Incarceration in the United States. I will first discuss how prisons are affecting the environment surrounding the prison. This includes the contribution to water contamination and air pollution due to not following EPA guidelines. I will also discuss how prisons often do not submit Environmental Impact Statements like they are supposed to. I will also include the fact that many prisons are built on or close to Superfund sites, which are extremely toxic.

I will follow with a paragraph about environmental and energy justice concerns for incarcerated individuals. This will include how individuals are exposed to such toxins mentioned before and their lack of access to heating and air conditioning.

I will end with a paragraph discussing the movement for "green prisons" around the United States. I will define what a green prison is and how the proposed changes to making prisons more sustainable.

Let me know if there are any concerns you may have with these proposed edits! Cyclegirl22 (talk) 20:38, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Global Poverty and Practice

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— Assignment last updated by Riyaaarul (talk) 18:19, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Prison education programs in the United States

I will be adding information to the section under "History" in this article to include structural racism and its impacts to historically marginalized groups in the United States. I will first expand the paragraph starting with "Following the Civil War and during the Progressive Era of America" to include the history of slavery being abolished and how that influenced the legal system. I will also discuss the impacts of disparate sentencing and mass incarceration on black people.

I will move the last sentence in the paragraph starting with "Broader socioeconomic inequality and disparities..." under the section "Race and ethnicity" to follow the sentence "In 2021, people of color constituted over two-thirds..." for ease of reading.

I will amend the tab "Prison education" under the section "Features of the criminal justice system" to include the reversal of the Pell Grant ban and peer tutor programs. I will discuss how changes in funding and legislation have revived programs across the United States and who is included in the conversations. Lfreeman333 (talk) 15:23, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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