Frogs, butterflies, bees, flowers and vegetable gardens. These are generally not forms of life one includes when pondering the environment of the contemporary prison industrial complex, but there is a growing trend toward prison-based environmental Ecological Conservation and sustainability science projects in the US.
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Stafford Creek Correctional Center in Washington state participates in the Sustainability in Prisons Project.
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — An undeveloped stretch of native prairie in south Puget Sound offers one of the few habitats in the world where a two-inch colorful checkered butterfly thrives.
At the Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women in Belfair, Washington, inmates are helping to save the endangered Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha taylori).
Ecological Conservation work usually involves restoring wildlife and natural habitats. For the people behind the Sustainability in Prisons Project (SPP), Ecological Conservation work is about restoring people too.
LITTLEROCK, Wash. (AP) — Taylor Davis has dedicated himself to saving endangered Oregon spotted frogs.
LITTLEROCK, Wash. — The birdman of Alcatraz became famous. But the frogmen of Cedar Creek are still anonymous beyond the tiny cult world of amphibian science.
The penitentiary here holds more souls than it was ever designed for. Some of the residents are loud and “mouthy,” needing lots of one-on-one attention; a few just can’t keep still.
A program at an Eastern Washington prison trains abandoned and neglected dogs so they can be adopted out to a family.
Washington state was the first to give pets to prisoners. Now an inmate at Cedar Creek Corrections Center is training canines to serve veterans—and turning around his own life.
Once a year, SPP reports on all things sustainable happening in Washington State Prisons.