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Enlisting Prison Labor to Close Budget Gaps. "Professors provide farming expertise, and inmates supply the labor and learn marketable skills as fieldworkers. "

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Professors provide farming expertise, and inmates supply the labor and learn marketable skills as fieldworkers. " Enlisting Prison Labor to Close Budget Gaps By ROBBIE BROWN and KIM SEVERSON New York Times- Published: February 24, 2011 JAY, Fla. ? Before he went to jail, Danny Ivey had barely seen a backyard garden. But here he was, two years left on his sentence for grand theft, bent over in a field, snapping wide, green collard leaves from their stems. For the rest of the week, Mr. Ivey and his fellow inmates would be eating the greens he picked, and the State of Florida would be saving most of the $2.29 a day it allots for their meals. Prison labor ? making license plates, picking up litter ? is nothing new, and nearly all states have such programs...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).