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APPENDIXB.IntervieweeList, ctd.
from HIDDEN HAZARDS: The Impacts of Climate Change on Incarcerated People in California State Prisons
TABLE2.InterviewCodebook, ctd.
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Decarceration Strategies
Abolitionist Lens
Recommendations to reduce the harm of climate disasters on the incarcerated population.
Strategies that deal with decarceration (e.g., elderly parole, compassionate release, medical release, rapid release, etc.)
Strategies that will decrease the size and scope of the current prison system and related to divest and reinvest.
Re-entry and Community Investments Investment before and after incarceration.
Health and Wellness of Incarcerated Population
Strategies that reduce exposure to the negative effects of climate hazards, particularly extreme temperatures, floods and wildfires (e.g., assigning a covid-risk score or a heat-risk score)
Climate Resilience
Strategies that include both infrastructure improvements and organizational changes within CDCR (e,g., hazard mitigation that includes brush clearing, retrofitting, organizational changes such as an MOU with local community, improving current plans, training for staff and incarcerated)
State and Public Accountability
Other
Emergency Plans
Answers "If you have not seen a plan, what would you hope the plan included? Or, what would you like to see included?"
Strategies that increase legislative and/or agency and public oversight and transparency.
Other recommendations that cannot be grouped in the above categories.