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I start with the field of environmental justice (EJ) studies, an area of scholarship in which I have worked for many years. The field of EJ studies has demonstrated that where we find social inequalities by race and class, we tend to also find environmental inequalities in the form of marginalized groups being exposed to greater levels of pollution, toxics, “natural” disasters including the effects of climate change as well as the exclusion of these groups from policy-making bodies that influence those outcomes [1-3]. A growing number of scholars use the term Critical EJ Studies as a perspective intended to address a number of limitations and tensions within earlier generations of EJ studies, which I address later in this commentary. In the next segments, I detail how the prison and jail systems in the U.S. produce and exacerbate public and environmental health risks for inmates and surrounding communities and ecosystems.

Environmental Inequalities and the U.S. Prison System: An Urgent Research Agenda