Presentation Year

2017

Depreciated Participant

Tony SilvaggioSociologyFaculty,Brant HartsellSociologyUndergraduate Student,Stian RoussellSociologyUndergraduate Student

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

The prison ecology project (PEP) maps the intersection of mass incarceration and environmental degradation by investigating the environmental impacts and human health problems created by the prison industrial complex. It is the first to study the myriad of environmental issues associated with prisons such as: water pollution from prison sewage and industrial waste; threats to listed species through the construction of prisons in remote, environmentally-sensitive rural areas; and, environmental justice concerns regarding prisoners, staff and surrounding communities concerning clean drinking water, exposure to coal ash dust and toxic waste.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

Node ID

202

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