I've been thinking about the big rural prisons that were built throughout the period of expansion of mass incarceration and how these and even the older prisons that operate(d) as farms likely relate to pesticide exposure.
Parchman prison that we have been studying is surrounded by cotton fields which is a high pesticide (and high water) use crop. It will likely be of impact to the midwest, the cotton patches in the south, and CA's central valley
I've been thinking about the big rural prisons that were built throughout the period of expansion of mass incarceration and how these and even the older prisons that operate(d) as farms likely relate to pesticide exposure.
I haven't done a deep dive into searching for the right data sources on this but USGS's National Pesticide Synthases Project may be a good place to start and maybe looking at Glyphosate as a proxy could be a way to take a step into this variable: https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/show_map.php?year=02&map=GLYPHOSATE&hilo=L&disp=Glyphosate
Parchman prison that we have been studying is surrounded by cotton fields which is a high pesticide (and high water) use crop. It will likely be of impact to the midwest, the cotton patches in the south, and CA's central valley