Thermal Abandonment: Best Practices to End Correctional Heat Death for Menopausal Black Women in Prison
ruling, I present a four-tier best practices toolkit-compassionate release, zero-copay hormone replacement therapy, thermometer protocols, and federal mandates-sequenced within a longer arc of structural decarceration. Thermal abandonment is deliberate indifference. It is also reversible.
Authors
- Erin M. Kerrison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1300-3983)
Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Correctional Health Care
- Published
- 2026-05-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10783458261449636
- Primary Topic
- Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00