Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
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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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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