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| Prison farms a growing concern for some critics |
| By nwaonline.com- Jeannie Roberts |
| Published: 02/22/2016 |
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On any given day, about 400 Arkansas prison inmates head out to the farm -- some driving large equipment, others packaging thousands of pounds of vegetables and grain, or meticulously picking through 100,000 eggs a day. The Arkansas Department of Correction prison farm -- consisting of about 21,500 acres spread among five prison facilities -- has a $20.4 million annual budget and generates about $6 million in crops sold to outside vendors and another $8.7 million in food consumed by inmates each year. The inmates, who are not paid for their labor, earn training certifications that translate into job skills that can be used on the outside. But some state legislators and farmers are raising a question: Is the prison farm model a relic of a bygone era no longer feasible or necessary in the 21st century? Read More. |
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