For press and media inquiries, please contact:
Kelli Bush, SPP Co-Director, bushk@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
SEM 2 A2117
Olympia, WA 98505
(360) 867-6863

Press & Media Room

The Sustainability in Prisons Project has received worldwide attention in numerous newspapers, magazines, scientific journals and other media. We feature some favorites here.

New! Summer 2023: SPP’s newest program, Avian Acoustic Monitoring, is featured on BirdNote’s June 21, 2023 episode.

TED (Technology, Education and Design), a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, featured our co-founder Dan Pacholke’s talk on the future of prisons. His presentation was made at the TEDx event hosted by Monroe Correctional Complex outside of Seattle, WA, only the second ever TED event in a prison.

In 2016, PBS NewsHour visited SPP’s butterfly greenhouse and a release on a nearby prairie. The 8-minute piece captures the beauty and partnership that has drawn international attention to the Taylor’s Checkerspot Butterfly program at Mission Creek Corrections Center.

Dr. Carri LeRoy, SPP’s Director for Evergreen, was published in Science, one of the best-regarded journals in the world! She describes her experience presenting a nature drawing workshop in prison, “outside the tower” of typical academia.

Journalists in 2015 published several stories on **garden programs** in prisons and the benefits they bring. Above, pieces from *Psychology Today* and the Washington Post.

Seattle journalists covered SPP’s **western pond turtle program** upon its inception in 2013. Incarcerated technicians have proved to be providers of exemplary turtle care.

Seattle Met Magazine -CCCC Dog Program p 1_Page_1 — Above, some of the coverage of prison dog programs, made possible by dedicated staff and incarcerated handlers at each facility and community partners.

Above, some of the coverage of prison dog programs, made possible by dedicated staff and incarcerated handlers at each facility and community partners.

New York Times article 09.28.12 — Sample Press Packet

Discover mag — Articles about SPP’s Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly program.

Articles about SPP’s Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly program.

Articles from Amy Stasch and Peter Little about SPP from an anthropological perspective.

For all SPP media coverage, see our Press & Media Archive.