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> in 2019, the Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was sentenced to life in prison by a United States court, and was made to forfeit 12 billion dollars, while the managers of #PurduePharma despite being given three felony convictions, did not go to jail, and the Sacklers retained possession of most of their fortune.
#RaceAndClass #TheSacklers and #ElChapo #ElChapoSacklers
#DrugLords

> ... the #cholera epidemic of 2008-2009 in South Africa was a disease of race. People of colour.. the prime victims.. cholera in South Africa has had a strong association with #RaceAndClass, as .. in other countries.. Also relevant is.. that in #SouthAfrica only 20 per cent of the population have access to exclusive private medical health services, while the majority of the country’s residents have to rely on an overworked and underfunded public #HealthService.
https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/89bd9033-a716-4e42-8757-989983a81901/content

An #extremeheat day (one that falls within the hottest 10% of days for a particular location) was associated with a 3.5% increase in #deaths. As if #prison environments weren’t already damaging enough to mental #health, the oppressive heat and a prison’s failure to provide relief from it can drive someone into unbearable distress.

#AbolishThePrisons #climatejustice #raceandclass #equaljustice

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/07/19/climate_change/