Wake County Jail's Environmental Stewardship: Sustainability Behind Bars

Webearth behind bars (2021) features the sustainability in prisons project, emphasizing composting and waste management education.

Webas the planet’s climate crisis worsens, america’s prisons and jails, which hold 20% of the world’s prison population, must take more responsibility for their.

Specifically, the evidence of water contamination, air pollution exposure, poor.

Webthe inmates in the program show how being behind bars with excessive amounts of time can be put to good use by spending their days making the community.

Webour interest in green prisons (by which primarily we mean prisons with sustainability accreditation), arises from ongoing research interrogating ‘official’.

Webclimate change’s deleterious impacts on incarcerated populations reveal productive points of intersection between movements for environmental justice, climate.

Wake County Detention Center 1B - O'Brien/Atkins Associates, PA

Webbeyond these examples, environmental and sustainability programs are operating in prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities nationwide and around the world.

Within the confines of prison walls, stories of resilience and transformation often emerge.

Webthis article examines the relationship between mass incarceration and environmental inequalities.