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The GFA Foundation-Ghana Prisons project, an initiative that seeks to use the power of football to promote the wellbeing, welfare, reformation, rehabilitation a...

Prisons are responsible for the social and biological death of the humans trapped within them, the animals whom it coerces prisoners to farm and slaughter, free-living animals displaced by prison building, as well as the ecosystems and waters destroyed by prison effluent which makes the lives of those dependent upon these systems and resources for survival, unliveable. In the context of the Sixth Extinction, the prison is at once one of the most resource intensive institutions contributing to Anthropogenic climate change and biodiversity loss, and paradoxically, in the last two decades, someti...

The seedlings are transplanted into areas torched by wildfires.

"In prisons across Western states, incarcerated people are raising tens of thousands of plants to restore sagebrush habitat, a vanishing ecosystem home to the iconic endangered greater sage-grouse and hundreds of other species."

Participants in the Sagebrush in Prisons Project are raising seedlings for planting in areas damaged by wildfire.