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

by ~ Clarence Jefferson Hall

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

Read Online and Download 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. .

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country by Clarence Jefferson Hall

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