Hazardous heat exposure among incarcerated people in the United States

Cascade Tuholske, Victoria D. Lynch, Raenita Spriggs, Yoonjung Ahn, Colin Raymond, Anne E. Nigra, Robbie M. Parks
Nature Sustainability 2024.

Project description

This dataset and code is used for the paper

Tuholske C, Lynch VD, Spriggs R, Ahn Y, Raymond C, Nigra AE, Parks RM (2024). Hazardous heat exposure among incarcerated people in the United States. Nature Sustainability.

Code

Data preparation (data_prep) list:

a_01_prepare_wbgt_prison_data - load WBGT prison data

a_02_prepare_wbgt_prison_summary_data - prepare WBGT prison summary data

a_03_prepare_wbgt_state_data - load WBGT state data

a_04_prepare_wbgt_state_summary_data - prepare WBGT state summary data

Data exploration (data_exploration) list:

b_00_prisons_explore - Basic facts about prisons

b_01_figure_1 - Plot Figure 1

b_02_figure_2 - Plot Figure 2

b_03_facilities_numbers_for_manuscript - Calculate all values for main manuscript

b_04_supp_figure_1 - Plot Supp.Figure 1

b_05_supp_figure_2 - Plot Supp. Figure 2

b_06_supp_figure_3_and_4 - Plot Supp.Figure 3 (26°C) and Supp.Figure 4 (30°C)

b_07_supp_figure_5_and_6 - Plot Supp.Figure 5 (26°C) and Supp.Figure 6 (30°C)

Directory structure

.
├── README.md
├── code
│   ├── data_exploration
│   │   ├── b_00_prisons_explore.Rmd
│   │   ├── b_00_prisons_explore.html
│   │   ├── b_01_figure_1.Rmd
│   │   ├── b_01_figure_1.html
│   │   ├── b_01_figure_1_additional_values_for_press_release.Rmd
│   │   ├── b_01_figure_1_additional_values_for_press_release.html
│   │   ├── b_02_figure_2.Rmd
│   │   ├── b_02_figure_2.html
│   │   ├── b_03_facilities_numbers_for_manuscript.Rmd
│   │   ├── b_03_facilities_numbers_for_manuscript.html
│   │   ├── b_04_supp_figure_1.Rmd
│   │   ├── b_04_supp_figure_1.html
│   │   ├── b_05_supp_figure_2.Rmd
│   │   ├── b_05_supp_figure_2.html
│   │   ├── b_06_supp_figure_3_and_4.Rmd
│   │   ├── b_06_supp_figure_3_and_4.html
│   │   ├── b_07_supp_figure_5_and_6.Rmd
│   │   └── b_07_supp_figure_5_and_6.html
│   ├── data_prep
│   │   ├── a_01_prepare_wbgtmax_prison_data.Rmd
│   │   ├── a_01_prepare_wbgtmax_prison_data.html
│   │   ├── a_02_prepare_wbgt_prison_summary_data.Rmd
│   │   ├── a_02_prepare_wbgt_prison_summary_data.html
│   │   ├── a_03_prepare_wbgtmax_state_data.Rmd
│   │   ├── a_03_prepare_wbgtmax_state_data.html
│   │   ├── a_04_prepare_wbgt_state_summary_data.Rmd
│   │   └── a_04_prepare_wbgt_state_summary_data.html
│   ├── functions
│   │   ├── functions.R
│   │   └── script_initiate.R
│   ├── packages
│   │   └── packages_to_load.R
│   └── python
│       ├── 01_bil_to_tif.py
│       ├── 02_WBGTMax.py
│       ├── ClimFuncs.py
│       ├── README.txt
│       ├── move_files.py
│       └── notebooks
├── create_folder_structure.R
├── data
│   ├── cascade
│   │   ├── Station-ERA5-PRISM-Bernard-Corr.csv
│   │   ├── Station-ERA5-PRISM-Bernard-Corr_26.csv
│   │   ├── Station-ERA5-PRISM-Bernard-Corr_30.csv
│   │   ├── Station-ERA5-PRISM-RHmin-Corr.csv
│   │   ├── Station-ERA5-PRISM-RHmin-Corr_26.csv
│   │   ├── Station-ERA5-PRISM-RHmin-Corr_30.csv
│   │   ├── Station-ERA5-PRISM-Tmax-Corr.csv
│   │   ├── Station-ERA5-PRISM-Tmax-Corr_26.csv
│   │   ├── Station-ERA5-PRISM-Tmax-Corr_30.csv
│   │   ├── Wunderground-Dallas-TX-June2023.csv
│   │   ├── Wunderground-Del-Rio-TX-June2023.csv
│   │   ├── Wunderground-Huntsville-TX-June2023.csv
│   │   └── mergeddat_2015-2020.csv
│   ├── fed_prisons.csv
│   ├── file_locations
│   │   └── file_locations.R
│   ├── fips_lookup
│   │   └── climate_region_lookup
│   ├── objects
│   │   └── objects.R
│   ├── population
│   │   ├── pre_1990
│   │   └── vintage_2020
│   ├── shapefiles
│   │   ├── Prison_Boundaries
│   │   └── states
│   ├── state_ecoregions.csv
│   ├── wbgt
│   │   ├── weighted_area_raster_prison_wbgtmax_daily_1981_2021_over_time.rds
│   │   ├── weighted_area_raster_prison_wbgtmax_daily_1981_2021_regression_analysis.rds
│   │   ├── weighted_area_raster_prison_wbgtmax_daily_1982_2020_over_time.rds
│   │   ├── weighted_area_raster_prison_wbgtmax_daily_1982_2020_regression_analysis.rds
│   │   └── weighted_area_raster_state_wbgtmax_daily_1982_2020_over_time.rds
│   └── wbgt_raw
│       ├── prison
│       └── state
├── figures
│   └── wbgtmax
│       ├── Figure_1.pdf
│       ├── Figure_1a.csv
│       ├── Figure_1b.csv
│       ├── Figure_2.pdf
│       ├── Figure_2_28_alpha_sorted.pdf
│       ├── Figure_2a.csv
│       ├── Figure_2b.csv
│       ├── Figure_2c.csv
│       ├── S_Figure_1.csv
│       ├── S_Figure_1.jpeg
│       ├── S_Figure_1.pdf
│       ├── S_Figure_2.csv
│       ├── S_Figure_2.jpeg
│       ├── S_Figure_2.pdf
│       ├── S_Figure_3.pdf
│       ├── S_Figure_3a_4a.csv
│       ├── S_Figure_3b_4b.csv
│       ├── S_Figure_4.pdf
│       ├── S_Figure_5.pdf
│       ├── S_Figure_5a_6a.csv
│       ├── S_Figure_5bc_6bc.csv
│       ├── S_Figure_6.pdf
│       ├── S_Figure_7.pdf
│       ├── S_Figure_8.pdf
│       └── research_brief_figure.pdf
├── output
├── tables
└── temperature_prisons_united_states_2024.Rproj

Data Availability

Data used for this analysis are available via https://github.com/sparklabnyc/temperature_prisons_united_states_2024.

The data used in this study were created from the following datasets.

• Daily 4-km PRISM data during 1982–2020 and HIFLD data are freely available at https://prism.oregonstate.edu/recent/ and https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com, respectively.
• National Center for Health Statistics bridged-race dataset (Vintage 2020) is available during 1990–2020 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/bridged_race.htm) and from the US Census Bureau before 1990 (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/1980s-county.html). Source data are provided with this paper.