Prisoners Get More Time Outdoors Than Children

Do Prisoners Get More Time Outdoors Than Our Kids?

• "United Nations has standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners and that one of them is an hour of outdoor exercise. Every single day."

• "A study in the UK revealed that prisoners get more time outdoors than 75% of British children.

  • 20% of British kids didn’t play outside at all on an average day."

Noontime sun creates Vitamin D in the exposed skin

No Vitamin D created if early morning or later afternoon

    when the shadow is longer the person

Little Vitamin D created if very little exposed skin

Little Vitamin D created during fall and winter

• Prisoners have very low vitamin D and get TB, influenza, and depression

• Prison doctor on lack of vitamin D in solitary confinement – July 2013

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