Connecting Prisons with Nature

The Sustainable Prisons Project is a partnership of the Washington State Department of Corrections and The Evergreen State College. Our mission is to reduce the environmental, economic and human costs of prisons by training offenders and correctional staff in sustainable practices. Equally important, we bring science into prisons by helping scientists conduct ecological research and conserve biodiversity through projects with offenders, college students and community partners.

Photographed, recorded and produced by Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele, June 2009.
View more of their work at benjandsara.com.