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2020, The University of Queensland, Solitary confinement: a panel discussion

2018, YES Magazine: Nature is Medicine, Even in a Prison Cell

2018, Governing News: Coming Soon to Solitary Confinement Cells: Nature Videos

2017, University of Utah News: Nature Imagery Calms Prisoners

2017, Deseret News: Changing nature: Study says bringing nature scenes to inmates reduces violence

2017, NBC News: Can ‘Blue Rooms’ Make Prisoners Safer and More Humane?

2017, Nature: Nature Videos Help to Calm Inmates in Solitary Confinement.

2017, Ecological Society of America: Collaborating with the Incarcerated in Ecological Restoration, Education and Sustainability

2017, Correctional News: Snake River Study Shows Nature Scenes Help Calm Prison Inmates

2017, Biographic (California Academy of Sciences): Conservation Meets Corrections

2017, Los Angeles Times: Researchers Figure Out How to Calm Inmates in Solitary Confinement: Nature Videos

2017, Daily Utah Chronicle: U Researchers Use Nature Imagery to Calm Solitary Confinement Inmates

PDF ONLY: 2017, National Geographic (France): Former Les Detenus A Proteger La Nature

2016, YES Magazine: Five Prisons Improving Life on the Inside

2016, National Geographic: Biologist Wants Nature for Everyone – Including Prisoners

2016, KSL: Smart Tools, Scientific Data Drive McAdams Vision for Salt Lake County  

2016, Popular Science: Nature Videos Make Prisoners Less Violent

2016, The Washington Post: Nature videos made violent prisoners more peaceful

2016, Independent: Nature Videos Seem to Make Maximum Security Prisoners Less Violent

2016, Outside: Is Nature the Key to Rehabilitating Prisoners?

2015, NPR: Reducing Aggression with the Environment

2015, Continuum (University of Utah): Blue Rooms Could Help Make Prisons Safer

2015, Fox 13 News: About 5,000 Fish Take Up Residence at SLC Jail

2015, The Washington Post: The Stunningly Simple Idea that Could Change Solitary Confinement as we Know It

2015, KUER: Jail Pond Helps Preserve Utah Species

2015, The Daily Utah Chronicle: U Program INSPIRE Strives to Introduce Science, Conservation to Prison Inmates

2015, Correctional News: Prison in Washington State is Latest to Institute “Blue Room”

RADIO: 2015, BYU Radio, Nature and the Mind

2015, Oregonian: Washington Prison Mimicking Oregon Program Showing Nature Videos to Solitary Prisoners

2014, Salt Lake City Tribune: Inmates as Conservationists? It Could Happen

2014, KSL: Prisoners Participate in Unique Education Program

2014, KUER: Salt Lake County Inmates Get Science Lessons

2014, Deseret News: University of Utah provides science education house call to jail inmates

2014, TIME Magazine: The 25 Best Inventions of 2014

2014, Oregonian: Oregon Prison Tackles Solitary Confinement with Blue Room Experiment

2014, Mother Nature Network: A (Greener) Life Behind Bars

2014, Daily Utah Chronicle: U Researchers Use Nature Imagery to Calm Solitary Confinement Inmates

RADIO: 2013, KUER: U Plans to Bring Science to Utah Prisons

2013, The Scientist: Science on Lockdown

2013, KSL: Inmates, Artists Work with Scientists to Save Forests

2012, The Salt Lake Tribune: Prisoners are saving nature, one frog at a time

2010, National Science Foundation: Science Behind Bars

2010, CNN: Prisoners Turn Over a New Leaf with Eye on Environment

VIDEO: 2010, PBS (KCTS): Sustainable Prisons Project

2009, The Oregonian: Washington Prisoners Plant Seeds for Conservation

2008, National Science Foundation: Inmates Conduct Ecological Research on Slow-growing Mosses

VIDEO: Sustainability in Prisons Project, Connecting Prisons with Nature

VIDEO: Sustainability in Prisons Project, Science for the Incarcerated: Prison Project