A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country (Environmental History of the Northeast)

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A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country (Environmental History of the Northeast)
By: First Edition | 2020 | Paperback

2020 | Paperback

9781625345363 / 1625345364

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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.

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