Comments on: Wash. Prison Doubles as a Sustainable Learning Facility

By: Wash. Prison Doubles as a Sustainable Learning Facility

Wash. Prison Doubles as a Sustainable Learning Facility — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:21:40 +0000

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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:09:44 +0000

[...] prison in Aberdeen, Washington is ditching manual labor, and instead teaching its inmates about sustainability. Included in the program is a focus on water and electricity reduction, hands-on-experience with a [...]

By: Garnet

Garnet — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:57:59 +0000

Scotty,
Fabulous idea! If the people who are in jail received an an education in what aimals must endure during their entire slaughter process, they may become more caring individuals. Let them learn how to become more compassionate and caring individuals. Something they may have never been introduced to while on the street. What a concept… people who adapt and respond welll to this should be moved into a more “peaceful” section of the jail also! Get the Planet back in balance.

By: Scotty

Scotty — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:01:54 +0000

They should serve vegan food in jail too.

By: Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:24:13 +0000

This is so exciting. I am so impressed with the people at both the prison and the College who have taken on such a optimistic and large project. I worked as a mens prison guard for several years. It was so frustrating to see how many things that could be switched to make the prison experience positive to the prisoner & society rather than creating more of a problem personality. I know the prisoners were real psycho-bastards (as well as many of the employees). But why do we do have to do things so backward, wasting so much over time just out of mean-spiritedness and sloth. We need younger, more energetic people involved in our government systems.

By: Billye

Billye — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:15:57 +0000

I so welcome this initiative in our prisons. I have long thought that we should do away with license plates pressing and get prisoners involved in clearing landfills. Resulting materials from cleared landfills can then be turned into useful recycled materials for road, housing, etc. Hope the idea catches on and expands into a useful re-entry to society and a more eco-friendly use of materials.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:45:20 +0000

The correlation between access to nature and wellness / healing has been well described in other populations (for example, in children and in hospitals), so this prison model makes perfect sense. I hope follow-up is done to carefully document the successes so that other prision systems are motivated to adopt this approach.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:54:16 +0000

This program should be a prime example for other prisons across the country to rehabilitate prisoners to become willing participants in society, rather than merely confirmed outsiders. Why hasn’t this approach been utilized before now? Exciting concept, for sure!