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Prison Agriculture in the United States

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Carrie Chennault, Colorado State University; Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University

Version:  View help for Version V1

Name File Type Size Last Modified
prison_ag.csv text/csv 79.1 KB 05/10/2022 09:00:AM
prison_ag_driver.csv text/csv 36.6 KB 05/02/2022 01:37:PM
prison_ag_driver_group.csv text/csv 331 bytes 05/02/2022 01:37:PM
prison_ag_hifld_key.csv text/csv 56.9 KB 05/02/2022 01:37:PM
prison_ag_type.csv text/csv 59.5 KB 05/02/2022 01:37:PM

Project Citation: 

Chennault, Carrie, and Sbicca, Joshua. Prison Agriculture in the United States. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-05-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E170141V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary The Prison Agriculture Lab at Colorado State University compiled a first-of-a-kind nationwide data set tracking prison agriculture in the United States. The data set identifies 1101 adult state-operated prisons, including 662 adult state-operated prisons with some type of crops and silviculture; horticulture and landscaping; animal agriculture; and/or food processing and production. These four types of agriculture are further broken down into subtypes, which are more detailed descriptions of an agricultural activity. The data set furthermore entails details on the specific drivers of agriculture, which are the goals or justifications for agriculture at each prison provided by prison authorities. The drivers are broadly classified into financial, idleness reduction, training, or reparative driver groups. Data covers all 50 states and was collected between 2019-2022 by speaking with prison authorities and by scraping official government and agency reports and websites. To enrich the geospatial aspects of this data set, the prison agriculture data provides a key to link with Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level prison boundaries data from 2020. 
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources School of Global Environmental Sustainability, CSU ; College of Liberal Arts, CSU

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms prison; agriculture; GIS; mapping
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage 50 U.S. States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2019 – 2020
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 6/2019 – 2/2022
Universe:  View help for Universe Adult (18+) government-run state prisons in the United States.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; geographic information system (GIS) data; observational data; text

Methodology

Response Rate:  View help for Response Rate We have confirmed data on agricultural activities for 662 out of 1101 adult government-run state prisons.

Sampling:  View help for Sampling The data collection sought to include all members of the universe.
Collection Mode(s):  View help for Collection Mode(s) other; telephone interview; web scraping
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Prisons
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit Individual prison

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V2 [2023-06-20]

V1 [2022-05-10]

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