Environmental Justice and Human Rights in Australasian Prisons: Navigating Challenges and Vulnerabilities

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dc.contributor.authorFarley, Helen
dc.contributor.authorWare J
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-13T21:11:56Z
dc.date.available2025-01-13T21:11:56Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the intersection of prisons, climate change, and disaster risk in Australasia, with a focus on environmental justice and human rights challenges. It explores the vulnerability of prison populations, the role of outdated infrastructure in increasing disaster risks, and the associated human rights concerns, including issues of torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, and health and safety risks. The analysis highlights environmental hazards affecting prisons, such as rising water tables, coastal flooding, and extreme weather events. The paper gives special attention to factors that heighten violence in prisons, such as heat stress, and examines how overcrowding and inadequate resources further amplify vulnerabilities to climate and environmental threats. Drawing on international frameworks like OPCAT and the Mandela Rules, alongside domestic human rights and corrections legislation, this paper assesses the current regulatory framework and its effectiveness in addressing the complex challenges posed by the intersection of climate change and prison environments. Insights from Inspectorate Reports will be used to illuminate the present situation and identify opportunities to enhance safety, well-being, and human rights within prison settings.
dc.identifier.citationFarley H, Ware J (2024). Environmental Justice and Human Rights in Australasian Prisons: Navigating Challenges and Vulnerabilities. Christchurch, New Zealand: Australian New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference 2024 - Navigating Variance: Intersectionality in Criminology. 04/12/2024-06/12/2024.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/107857
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stated
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subject.anzsrc44 - Human society::4402 - Criminology::440202 - Correctional theory, offender treatment and rehabilitation
dc.subject.anzsrc48 - Law and legal studies::4807 - Public law::480703 - Domestic human rights law
dc.subject.anzsrc41 - Environmental sciences::4101 - Climate change impacts and adaptation::410103 - Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation
dc.titleEnvironmental Justice and Human Rights in Australasian Prisons: Navigating Challenges and Vulnerabilities
dc.typeConference Contributions - Other
uc.collegeFaculty of Law
uc.departmentFaculty of Law
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