Greening the Gulag: Politics of Sustainability in Prison

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dc.contributor.advisorCohen, Shaul
dc.contributor.authorBohlinger, Brittany
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-27T18:54:28Z
dc.date.available2016-10-27T18:54:28Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-27
dc.description.abstractOver the past 30 years, the U.S. prison population has exploded. With only 5% of the global population, the U.S. now incarcerates more than 25% of the world’s prisoners (ACLU, 2011). This has led to increased attention towards the carceral system in the United States, and the efficacy of its methods of rehabilitation. As inmate populations rise, prisons have also become increasingly over-crowded, and this has led to a variety of environmental problems. In response to this and calls to action by the Justice Department to implement more sustainable and cost effective strategies in prisons, the United States is seeing a surge in prison sustainability programs throughout the country. While sustainability is an important challenge facing the world, researchers have argued that these changes are being made not only with environmental sustainability in mind, but with strategic aims to sustain current levels of hyper-incarceration.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20537
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectCarceral geographyen_US
dc.subjectCarceral humanismen_US
dc.subjectCriminologyen_US
dc.subjectGreenwashingen_US
dc.subjectPrisonen_US
dc.subjectSustainabilityen_US
dc.titleGreening the Gulag: Politics of Sustainability in Prison
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Geography
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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