Green Prison Reform
via radiuslife
Here some GREEN to chew on.
Green Prison Reform is a wonderful way to rehabilitate the convicted/incarcerated. Nothing helps to rehabilitate a person like being close to nature. And encouraging prisoners to grow their own (organic) food is a very sustainable way for someone to serve their prison term. This builds self esteem and is a way of giving back.
Green Prison Reform KCTS 9
June 20, 2008
KCTS 9 Connects
Green Prison ReformWe take you behind the security gates and see how one local prison is not only reducing its massive carbon footprint but also pioneering new ways to rehabilitate prisoners.
Green Prison Farms, or Learning Behind Bars
Posted by Bill Belew in Eco-friendly TuesdayNov 4,2008
There’s a green prison farm, the Cedar Creek Corrections Center, about 25 miles outside Olympia, the capital of Washington state, where inmates, murderers and elsewise, are being used to cultivate the green prison farms.
Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money – Nov 1, 2008
… coffee grounds from prison headquarters — doing his part to “green” the prison. … As around-the-clock operations, prisons are voracious resource hogs, …
The Associated Press -
Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money – Yahoo! News
LITTLEROCK, Wash. –
Of all the things convicted murderer Robert Knowles has been called during his 13 years behind bars, recycler hasn’t been one of them.
But there he was one morning, pitchfork in hand, composting food scraps from the main chow line and coffee grounds from prison headquarters — doing his part to “green” the prison.
“It’s nice to be out in the elements,” said Knowles, 42, stirring dark, rich compost that will amend the soil at the small farm where he and fellow inmates of the Cedar Creek Corrections Center grew 8,000 pounds of organic vegetables this year.
