Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
Blooming Inside the Walls
Blooming Inside the Walls By Graduate Research Associate Carl Elliott from Stafford Creek Corrections Center Surrounded by acres of Douglas-fir forest and behind razor wire security fences, a garden tended…
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SPP Research Associates Present Their Theses
By Graduate Research Associate Alicia LeDuc Two of SPP’s former Graduate Research Associates have completed theses for the Master of Environmental Studies program at The Evergreen State College. Liesl Plomski…
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WCCW Winter Lecture Series a Success
By Graduate Research Associate Alicia LeDuc SPP’s winter Science and Sustainability Lecture Series at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) in Gig Harbor, Washington marked another successful season of…
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Inmates Restore Prairie, Make Video to Teach Others
By Graduate Research Associate Carl Elliott The end of the growing season brings a lot of clean up and preparation for the Sustainable Prisons Project. This year’s native prairie plants,…
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Cedar Creek’s Captive Crickets
By Graduate Research Associate Jill Cooper This past spring, Cedar Creek Corrections Center and the Sustainable Prisons Project began experimenting with a new captive rearing project to raise crickets. The…
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