Clarence Jefferson (Jeff) Hall grew up near Plattsburgh and is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Queensborough Community College/CUNY, where he teaches courses in US History, New York History, and Environmental History. His research investigates the intersection of environmental politics and incarceration in the US in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. His first book, A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country, examines the growth of prisons in the Adirondacks from the 1840s through the 1990s through the lens of environmental history.