Corrections Community

A NY Times blog reports on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's green retrofitting projects (estimated to save 3 million per year), an Indiana correctional facility burning scrap wood from the prison’s pallet industry to save $6,300 a day in gas bills, and other "green"...

Click here to see the KCTS9 video about Green Prison Reform in Washington State. The video focuses on Cedar Creek Corrections Center, where one inmate conducted a study on the economic effect of recycling at the facility with a professor from Evergreen State College. The name of the study is “ Sustainability...

A great article about green corrections was published on msnbc.com on November 1st, 2008. In case you didn't see it, take a look: Prisons go green, farm, recycle to save energy The article provides examples of cost saving measures such as using wood chips to run water boilers and installing energy...

On February 4-6, 2009, the Blue Green Alliance will be hosting the Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference in Washington, D.C. This conference will focus on educating stakeholders about the importance of investing in green jobs for the economy. Even though this conference does not have a corrections...

Welcome to the National Institute of Corrections Green Corrections blog. The recent movement in corrections around the idea of becoming "green" has prompted NIC to create this blog in order to pass along any information we become aware of on the subject. But what exactly is "Green Corrections"...