Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
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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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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Building a Bridge
In our last entry we wrote to tell you that funding for the Sustainable Prisons Project (SPP) was cut as a result of significant budget cuts within the Washington Department…
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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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Nalini Receives Education Award
Dr. Nalini Nadkarni received an Education Award from Washington Correctional Association for her innovative work as Co-Director of the Sustainable Prisons Project. The annual award recognizes “an individual or agency…
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