Dr. Joshua Sbicca has been serving as an expert witness in a federal class action lawsuit that was recently covered by Verite News’“Lawsuit over farm line work assignments at Angola goes to trial” article and The Advocate’s“Advocacy groups press to abolish Angola prison’s Farm Line in Baton Rouge federal court” article. Last spring, Josh was […]
Dr. Pat Hastings was quoted in a USA Today article, “Hilary Duff’s husband, Ashley Tisdale and why modern parenting is so messy” about modern parenting and mom groups. “These spaces that give advice and companionship are also places where parents are going to implicitly or explicitly compare themselves to other people and their parenting,” said […]
The highly-regarded French journal Alternatives Économiques reached out to Dr. KuoRay Mao seeking his expertise in green criminology, specifically in regards to China’s environmental strategies and what the trajectory could mean for worldwide sustainability. In the journal’s article “Is China really becoming an ecological country?” Dr. Mao shares valuable insight on how China’s model of […]
Dr. Joshua Sbicca was recently interviewed by Sentient Media for their article “Could People in ICE Detention Centers Be Forced to Work in Slaughterhouses?” Part of the reason that animal agriculture, and agriculture more broadly, relies so heavily on immigrant labor is because of the nature of the work, he told Sentient. “Many frontline agricultural […]
The research of the Prison Agriculture Lab – co-directed by Associate Professor of Sociology Joshua Sbicca and Assistant Professor of Geography Carrie Chennault – has served as the basis for a recently published Associated Press two-year investigation and special report, “Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular […]
In January the Prison Agriculture Lab released a storymap, Growing Chains: Prison Agriculture and Racial Capitalism in the United States, to complement its satellite image gallery, and teaching modules. In February, co-founders Joshua Sbicca and Carrie Chennault (Geography) were interviewed for CSU’s podcast, The Audit: CSU’s Prison Agriculture Lab researches the roots, impact of the prison agriculture industry. Since then, Josh and Carrie […]
CSU Sociology Professor and Food Systems Institute Co-director Michael Carolan spoke to The Audit podcast about his research into food, food systems and building empathy on common ground.
Agrihoods Promise Fresh Food and Community. Can They Add Equity to the List? Agrihoods promise to save farmland by turning it into a residential amenity. Can this effort to bridge housing and farmland support environmental justice? Article by Greta Moran. Originally published by Civil Eats. Please click here to read.
By Melinda Hemmelgarn. Originally appeared on Food Sleuth Radio. Did you know that over 600 U.S. prisons include agricultural activities of some kind? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Joshua Sbicca, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab at Colorado State University. […]
Just a handful of Denver neighborhoods are home to a disproportionate number of imprisoned people Article by Allison Sherry and Veronica Penney. Originally published by Colorado Public Radio. Photo by Hart Van Denburg/CPR News. Denverites living in one of a few small neighborhoods — Elyria-Swansea, Globeville and Sun Valley — are much more likely to be incarcerated […]
