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Jail Goes Green With Inmate Help
By seattletimes.nwsource.com
Published: 04/20/2010

Their hands have done awful things.

Broken locks. Broken bones. Written bad checks. Dealt drugs. Murdered.

So it was strange to see prison inmates tending to tender impatiens and tomato starts at the Monroe Correctional Complex on Monday.

"At night, I'm wondering what's going to be growing this weekend, what's bloomed," said Lorne Rooth, 45, who was convicted of assault and violated a court order, and now spends his days in the greenhouse. "I like watching things grow."

The Monroe Correctional Complex has quietly become the star of the state Department of Corrections' sustainable-prisons effort. The program started seven years ago with a research project that centered on growing moss.

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