Prison Ecology Project

We want to gather input on how prisoners and people in close proximity to prisons are experiencing the intersections of health, ecology and incarceration. Providing info in this form will allow our research team to develop the Prison Ecology Mapping effort.

Join us in addressing the problems that arise at the intersection of mass incarceration and environmental degradation.

The TX House of Representatives' Calendars Committee has less than a week to get HB 363, a bill that would create an independent ombudsman to TDCJ, on to the floor for discussion, spurring the TX Senate to also bring its companion bill up, SB 188. The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prison...

On January 15th, Florida prisoners launched #OperationPUSH, asking supporters to "shine a light from the outside in on the system."...

This action will send a letter to your representatives in Congress who could take a stand to save taxpayers $444 million dollars by respecting the Department of Justice (DOJ) position on not building this prison. It will also add your name on a new comment to the BOP for the latest version of...

The Department of Justice agrees: We don't need the Letcher prison--------------------------------------------------------------------In August of this year the DOJ, which controls to Bureau of Prisons (BOP), retracted its request for funds to build this prison in Ken...

There are about 2.4 million people who live in the United States but are effectively ignored by the Environmental Protection Agency. How is this possible? They live in prisons.It is appalling that our government is exempting millions of people from basic environmental and health safeg...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has proposed to build a new facility located in the mountains of eastern Kentucky—the actual region used as the model for "District 12" in The Hunger Games trilogy, showing that The Capito...