Carceral Ecology - OSHA Project
Credit to the Carceral Ecologies Lab
I worked on the Carceral Ecologies project as a member of Hack for California for two years. Our goal was to identify and use data to shed insight into health and safety conditions within prisons. I developed a dataset of OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) inspections and violations for California prisons since 2009.
The code used for this project is publicly available and reproducible. Others may find the tool useful for identifying OSHA inspections and violations for carceral facilities for different states and years.
Publication
Hunter, Savannah, Lindsay Poirier, and Nicholas Shapiro. (2024). “Advancing Critical Data Literacy through Justice-Focused Research: A Case Study of the Occupational Hazards of Mass Incarceration” in Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention, edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Karin Van Es, and Tracey P. Lauriault. Amsterdam University Press.
How to Cite:
Savannah Hunter, Jared Joseph, Lindsay Poirier, & Nicholas Shapiro. (2021, May 27). Carceral-Ecology OSHA Data Extraction and Cleaning Tool. Zenodo.
