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The Toxic Prisons Mapping Project, Beta, is a participatory research initiative to map the environmental hazards that prisons, jails, and detention centers face from extreme heat, air pollution, flooding, wildfires and more. The project also includes audio and written narratives from people who have been directly impacted by incarceration. We hope this mapping tool will be used to support activism and policy change aimed at decreasing the scope of the prison system which is physically, socially, and psychologically toxic to our communities.