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Inmates Care For Horses At Putnamville Prison
By indianapublicmedia.org - Amanda Solliday
Published: 05/24/2013

Painting, sweeping, weeding. There’s still quite a bit of work to do before the public visits the Thoroughbred Retirement Farm.

Tomorrow, inmates at Putnamville Correctional Facility will display the horse farm they built and work at daily.

“They cut down the trees, they planed the boards, they built the barns, poured the concrete, seeded the pastures, built the fencing. They’ve done it all,” Barbara Holcomb, equine vocational instructor, says.

Holcomb runs the farm, which includes rescuing horses for the program and teaching prisoners how to care for the animals.

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