Gardening Behind Bars

1. Introduction.- Part 1: Theoretical and Historical Contexts.- 2. History of Food Justice in the U.S. and the Rockpile Program as a Food Justice.- 3. Prison and Jail Gardens: The Disturbing History of Exploitative Incarcerated Labor Initiative.- Part 2:  Gardening in Incarcerated Settings Today.- 4. Therapeutic Gardening in Incarcerated Settings in the United States.- 5. Creating a Garden in a Community-Based Corrections Facility. -6. Centering Women's Voices: Findings and Implications from U.S. Midwest.- 7. Building a Prison Garden in the U.S. Southeast.- 8. Centering Women's Voices: Findings and Implications from the U.S. Southeast.- 9. Methodological and Logistical Challenges of Gardens Behind Bars.- Part 3: A Practical How-to Guide for Practitioners and Future Directions for Prison and Jail Horticultural Programs.- 10. Gardening as Clinical Sociology.- 11. Concluding Remarks.- Appendix 

Andria L. Blackwood, Ph.D., is an associate research scientist at the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center at the University of Wyoming. She received her master's degree in Sociology and her PhD in Geography from Kent State University in Ohio. Her main research interests center on incarceration issues including the development and implementation of correctional programming for successful reentry, substance use disorder, and mental health. She is currently the lead evaluator of a reentry program for day reporting centers in Alabama and a Naloxone dispensing program in Arkansas. She worked as a research and grant specialist in community corrections for Oriana House Inc. from 2019-20 and was director of the horticulture program located at the community corrections facility for women. The program focused on embedding cognitive behavioral techniques to address social skills, problem solving, critical reasoning, and self-control within the directed leisure activity of gardening.
Stephen B. Carmody, Ph.D., is an anthropological archaeologist. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Troy University, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in anthropology with a specialization in archaeology and paleoethnobotany. His research focuses on the origins of agriculture, the origins of structural inequality, agricultural sustainability, and food justice. These themes are the focus of several recent publications including, "Agricultural Innovation and Dispersal in Eastern North America", in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science; "The Context and Consequences of Sexual Harassment in Southeastern Archaeology", in Advances in Archaeological Practices; and "From the Past ... A More Sustainable Future?" in the Society for American Archaeology Archaeological Record. Stephen serves as an executive board member for the Tennessee Council of Professional Archaeologists and served on the Society for