Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr., Ph.D.

Clarence Jefferson (Jeff) Hall Jr. is associate professor in the Department of History at Queensborough Community College / CUNY and visiting instructor of Sustainability Studies in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute.  His teaching and research investigate the intersectional histories of environment, race, and incarceration in the U.S.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

A Prison in The Woods

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country was published by the University of Massachusetts Press–as a volume in the series Environmental History of the Northeast–in November 2020. 

In A Prison in the Woods, Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. investigates the environmental implications of the planning, building, and operation of correctional facilities in communities in New York’s Adirondack Park.

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