Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting Ecological 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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Coming Full Circle
Posted by Graduate Research Associate Carl Elliot The long-term goal of the prairie plant nursery project at Stafford Creek Correction Center (SCCC) is to produce seed to be used in…
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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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From Parks to Prisons
This week I had the fortune of presenting talks on bear biology both at Washington Corrections Center for Women and McNeil Island Corrections Center. Although I’ve presented many an evening…
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Once a year, SPP reports on all things sustainable happening in Washington State Prisons.