bar chart showing that suicide, heart disease, and overall deaths increase when summer temperatures are hotter than average, and increase even more after a three-day heatwave

Data Source: Skarha, J. et al (2023), Heat-related mortality in U.S. state and private prisons: A case-crossover analysis. PLOS ONE 18(3):e0281389. (Graph: Leah Wang, 2023)

This graph originally appeared in Heat, floods, pests, disease, and death: What climate change means for people in prison.

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