Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
Farewell Frogs!
By Graduate Research Associate Jill Cooper It has been another successful season rearing Oregon Spotted Frogs at Cedar Creek Correction Center. A total of 1,346 were released into a wetland…
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Opportunity to Support the Sustainable Prisons Project
Nearly a month has passed since the announcement of the deep state budget cuts that terminated the Sustainable Prisons Project’s two-year contract with the Washington State Department of Corrections. The…
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Outreach at the South Sound Science Symposium
By Graduate Research Associate Jill Cooper On October 27, 2010, former and current Sustainable Prisons Project Research Associates Liesl Plomski and Jill Cooper attended the South Sound Science Symposium on…
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Dick Meyer Brings Fair Trade to Prisons
On October fifth in Gig Harbor, Washington, Olympia resident Dick Meyer walked through the security gates of the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) headed for the visit room. “When…
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Hard news in hard times: Sustainable Prisons Project Hits Economic Downturn
Post by Project Co-Director Nalini Nadkarni Economic conditions at the national and the state level are increasingly difficult due to sharp drops in state tax collections. Responding to these lean…
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Offenders Prepare for Frog Release
Posted by Graduate Research Associate Liesl Plomski Offenders at Cedar Creek Corrections Center have been preparing their Oregon spotted frogs to be released in late September at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. …
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