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In a given year, thousands of people are incarcerated in these detention facilities.

In a given year, thousands of people are incarcerated in these detention facilities.

In any given year, thousands of people are incarcerated in dozens of detention facilities run by tribal nations or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Often left out of research on climate and carceral facilities, the tribal prisoner population is one of the most invisible and vulnerable in the country. Now, climate change threatens to make matters worse. 

Overcrowded and underfunded, tribal jails aren't ready for a warming world.

Decades of inadequate funding and rising temperatures are putting Indigenous detainees at risk.

The Dragon's House of Horror sits west of Albuquerque, but to get to it – there's a problem.