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| Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility garden helps inmates, prison budget |
| By wqad.com- Brittany Lewis |
| Published: 05/30/2014 |
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For eight hours a day, up to 20 inmates at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility in Mount Pleasant, Iowa care for a garden on prison grounds. The Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility is a medium security facility that currently has 856 offenders and focuses on the treatment of male offenders with treatable character disorders and substance abuse problems, according to the Iowa Department of Corrections. There is a separate unit for women. No more than 20 inmates that meet strict criteria are identified as “Minimum Out” and are allowed to work in a garden that produces vegetables including corn, zucchini, melons, green peppers, onions, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, and various squash. Read More. |
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