Four years after its Salt River Recycling Facility north of Mesa was destroyed in a fire, Republic Services last week publicly unveiled a larger and more sophisticated replacement at its
In any given year, thousands of people are incarcerated in dozens of detention facilities run by tribal nations or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Often left out of research on climate and carceral facilities, the tribal prisoner population is one of the most invisible and vulnerable in the country. Now, climate change threatens to make matters worse.
Indigenous people have been advocating for missing and murdered Indigenous peoples for generations. But it’s only within the last few years have state and national officials started to pay attention.