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Western MA: Prisoners sew cloth grocey bags

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Inmates sew cloth grocery bags Monday, March 03, 2008 By NANCY H. GONTER Springfield Republican NORTHAMPTON - A group of inmates at the Hampshire House of Correction are working with a Cummington woman to change the way people bring home their groceries. Nearly a year ago, artist Leni F. Fried and others in a hilltown "sustainability group" created the Bag Share Project. They worked with hilltown residents to use donated fabric to create hundreds of cloth grocery bags that were placed at small food stores, including the Old Creamery in Cummington and Cooper's Corner in Florence. The goal is to have shoppers use them for their groceries instead of plastic bags and then return them so they can be used again and again, Fried said. "We wanted to know, 'Can we change people's habits?' We decided to give these away and ask people to return the bags," Fried said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).