In America, 2.3 million people are incarcerated. The prison complex is immense, and its ecological and human costs are extreme. For inmates, prison is a world of iron bars and concrete; isolation and regimentation. Filmed in Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Little Rock, Washington, this short documentary follows a project to re-connect inmates with nature – and with the outside world – through science and sustainability education.
Restoring the biodiversity of America’s landscapes – from inside its prisons
Producers and Directors: Benjamin Drummond, Sara Joy Steele
11 July 2014
videoConsciousness and altered states
What do screens depicting serene natural scenes mean to those living in lock-up?
12 minutes
videoMood and emotion
How the sounds of solitary confinement might be worse than the isolation
3 minutes
videoHuman rights and justice
What is Mother’s Day to a child whose mother is in prison?
8 minutes
videoSocial psychology
In a tough American prison, a former inmate returns to teach meditation
10 minutes
videoThinkers and theories
The prison abolitionist who dares to envision a world without ‘unfreedoms’
16 minutes
videoFamily life
A mother and child bond in an unusual prison visitation space in this poignant portrait
11 minutes
videoPersonality
Eight men reflect on their paths to prison – and imagine their alternative lives
30 minutes
videoHuman rights and justice
Court fees and minor fines are leading to debilitating cycles of incarceration in the US
15 minutes
videoHuman rights and justice
The buzzes, clanks and whirrs of prison life form a meditation on freedom
17 minutes