Connecting Prisons with Nature from Benjamin Drummond / Sara Steele on Vimeo.
Doing good while doing time – that’s our mantra. At the Sustainable Prisons Project, we encourage everyone in our community, including incarcerated men and women, to become stewards of the planet. Toward that end, our activities focus on three areas:
SUSTAINABLE OPERATION OF PRISONS
We help correctional staff develop cost-effective, environmentally sound practices for operating prisons and engage offenders with direct responsibility for these activities where security is in place. Activities include recycling, composting, organic gardening and rehabilitating troubled dogs.
GREEN-COLLAR EDUCATION AND TRAINING
We inspire and train inmates and correctional staff through programs designed to improve prison sustainability and connect participants to the larger world of science and conservation. Our instructors range from biologists and farmers to business entrepreneurs and green energy experts.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION
With support from visiting scientists, we carry out ecological research and conservation projects involving inmates, college students and community partners. Current projects include rearing endangered frogs, propagating native prairie plants and a beekeeping training program. Lean more