A01=Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr
Adirondack conservation movement
Adirondack history
Adirondack Park
Adirondack Park communities
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
American penal history
American prisons
Author_Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr
automatic-update
carceral geography
carceral state in rural settings
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBG
Category=JB
Category=JBF
Category=JF
Category=JFF
Category=JKSW1
Category=JKVF
Category=NH
Category=NHB
conservation and justice
contested landscapes of punishment
COP=United States
criminal justice reform
deforestation and pollution
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
ecological impact of prisons
economic restructuring in small towns
environmental activism in New York
environmental degradation and restoration
environmental ethics and responsibility
environmental history
environmental justice movement
environmental policy history
environmental racism
environmental regulation enforcement
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=0
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
geography of imprisonment
green criminology
history of incarceration
history of land management
human impact on wilderness
imprisonment
industrial and natural resource exploitation
industrial decline and recovery
intersections of ecology and justice
Language_English
mass incarceration studies
nature and punishment
New York environmental politics
PA=Available
penal reform history
penitentiaries
Price_€20 to €50
prison construction politics
prison expansion era
prison industrial complex
prison siting controversies
prison town economies
protected area conflicts
PS=Active
public health and environment
race and class dynamics
regional development in the Adirondacks
rural economic dependence
rural incarceration
rural labor markets
social and ecological interdependence
social inequality in rural America
softlaunch
state and federal corrections
state prison systems
sustainable land use debates
twentieth century incarceration
Upstate New York
upstate New York history
wilderness preservation issues
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345363
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 2020
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr is assistant professor of history at Queensborough Community College.
