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 Launches New Ecological Conservation Program at Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women
SPP Launches New Ecological Conservation Program at Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women By Graduate Research Associate Dennis Aubrey The Sustainable Prisons Project (SPP) and the Mission Creek Corrections Center…
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Arboriculture Workshop at Cedar Creek Correction Center
The SPP recently held a full day workshop on arboriculture at Cedar Creek Correction Center. The workshop was a great success with nearly 40 inmates (maximum allowed) and approximately 12…
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Smoke Water
Posted by Graduate Research Associate Carl Elliott In a plant nursery that focuses on native plants and restoration, expectations are a bit different than at a traditional commercial nursery. Commercial…
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A New Season
By Graduate Research Associate Carl Elliot The nursery sowing season at Stafford Creek Correction Center (SCCC) opened amidst mud and construction. Excessive rainfall throughout the spring led to great volumes…
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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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