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| Almost Free, Garden Helps Inmates |
| By freep.com |
| Published: 08/10/2010 |
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They're growing not just crops but new lives at Gateway Community Garden on Detroit's east side. Michigan prison inmates finishing their sentences at the Gateway halfway house on East Jefferson Avenue at Lillibridge Street have created a small but vibrant example of an inner-city garden. Using a vacant lot and recycled debris from a demolished house nearby, the inmates are growing corn, tomatoes, peppers, watermelons, lettuce and squash. The men give away the fruits and vegetables to needy people and appreciate purposeful work to fill their final days of incarceration. For James (Bear) Fuller, 51, who spent 34 years in prison for homicide, the garden is a metaphor for the changes he and other prisoners have tried to make in themselves. Read More. |
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