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Hello John,

It was his first day in prison and 115°F in the barren Sonoran Desert of
Buckeye, Arizona, the home of the Arizona Department of Corrections’ Lewis
Complex. Dream.Org would like you to meet our Digital Campaigner, John
Fabricius, as he details his lived experience being incarcerated in
Arizona, and how climate change has made life in prison more dangerous.

In this story, John details his first assigned job in prison working on
the “afternoon rock crew,” raking rocks for $0.10 an hour in the direct
sun of the unforgiving Arizona desert. It’s a story about the intersection
of mass incarceration and climate change, and the danger our society faces
by failing to act on either.

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Photo credits Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and
Reentry and Tom Tingle/The Republic

[ [link removed] ]Read John’s Powerful Story Here

Right now across the country, the men, women, and children held in our
prisons are on the front lines of the climate crisis — feeling the record
high heat with little or no opportunity for shade, water, or rest. State
and federal prison facilities are often constructed for government
efficiency to warehouse humans with little to no thought to the effect
environmental conditions have on the humans inhabiting these facilities.
Moreover, these facilities are oftentimes built on government lands
otherwise inhospitable to residential or commercial construction.

Stories of exposure, heat stress, inhumane conditions, and forced work in
extreme environments are far too common in our prisons all around the
country. As we begin creating more protections for workers in response to
the dangerous effects of climate change, we must also demand that our
elected officials and policymakers think of the tens of thousands of our
citizens held in prisons around the nation and the impact that climate
change has and will continue to have on this marginalized population.

Please join us at Dream.Org as we work to end mass incarceration and build
a green future for our country.

[ [link removed] ]Click Here to Read John’s Story

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