Name: A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country
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Author: Hall, Clarence Jefferson
ISBN: 9781625345356

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A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country

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Physical Book

Author

Clarence Jefferson Hall

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.0 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9781625345356

Synopsis "A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country"

Since the mid-nineteenth century, Americans have known the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York as a site of industrial production, a place to heal from disease, and a sprawling outdoor playground that must be preserved in its wild state. Less well known, however, has been the area's role in hosting a network of state and federal prisons. A Prison in the Woods traces the planning, construction, and operation of penitentiaries in five Adirondack Park communities from the 1840s through the early 2000s to demonstrate that the histories of mass incarceration and environmental consciousness are interconnected. Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. reveals that the introduction of correctional facilities--especially in the last three decades of the twentieth century--unearthed long-standing conflicts over the proper uses of Adirondack nature, particularly since these sites have contributed to deforestation, pollution, and habitat decline, even as they've provided jobs and spurred economic growth. Additionally, prison plans have challenged individuals' commitment to environmental protection, tested the strength of environmental regulations, endangered environmental and public health, and exposed tensions around race, class, place, and belonging in the isolated prison towns of America's largest state park.

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