In Colorado, the prison agriculture business is booming.
, worked with six students on a herculean data-collection exercise that spanned two years and involved pulling government data, searching for annual reports, speaking with the Department of Corrections, scanning prison websites and calling wardens and administrators across the country.
“There are hierarchies within a prison system itself…that some people deserve education and some people deserve to be forced to work,” Sbicca notes. “But in either of those cases, it’s always on the prison system’s terms, and it always reproduces the legitimacy of the prison to be the place within which we discipline people…and it’s just a matter of how and to what degree.”
On the opposite end, prisons with horticulture and therapeutic gardens will highlight these as meditative and healing. However, the energy, time and money it takes to maintain such gardens and greenhouses is often only accessible to the middle class and up.Prison Agriculture Labhave agriculture programs, including aquaculture and beekeeping at Arrowhead Correctional Center, dairy processing and game birds at Four Mile Correctional Center and a vineyard at Skyline Correctional Center.
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