Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
Beekeeping prisoners: Science inside the fence
Blog post written by Michael Nelson, an inmate at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center (posted by Project Manager Jeff Muse as Washington State offenders do not have Internet access): In…
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Beekeeping at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center
Blog post by Project Manager Jeff Muse: In the summer of 2009, more than a dozen offenders at the Cedar Creek and Stafford Creek corrections learned skills in beekeeping. Led…
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Gardens take root at McNeil Island prison
Blog post by Project Manager Jeff Muse: The McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) is digging into the Sustainable Prisons Project with inspiring results. This summer, MICC Gardens Supervisor Scott Skaggs…
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Beekeeping: More than honey
Blog post by Graduate Assistant Sarah Clarke: There are opportunities that come along only once in a lifetime, and I experienced one this week. Project Manager Jeff Muse and I…
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Saving frogs takes teamwork
Blog post by Graduate Assistant Liesl Plomski: Washington State inmates Harry and Al are not the only people raising endangered Oregon spotted frogs for the Washington Department of Fish and…
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Green-collar kites: Inmates share their ideas for sustainability
Blog post by Project Manager Jeff Muse: Inmates often communicate through “kites,” traditionally a slang term for any hand-written note passed among offenders or to the outside world. What used…
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