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| Benefits of prison farms go beyond saving tax dollars |
| By wistv.com- Renee Standera |
| Published: 07/29/2014 |
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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Just eight miles from downtown Columbia, there's a farm that gives you the impression you're in the deep country. You can stand in the middle of a pasture and gaze upon the Columbia skyline. But not everyone who works this farm can leave. It's property owned by the South Carolina Department of Corrections. And the food grown here feeds inmates throughout the state. "It's money that we don't have to ask for in our budget so it's a savings for the state," Corrections Director Bryan Sterling said. "We have inmate labor readily available," he said. "We use that inmate labor. It's beneficial to the department in many ways. It not only saves money for the state in growing the products, but it also allows these folks, these inmates, to learn a skill so when they leave here, they have a skill where they could actually be employed at veterinary clinics or farms across the state." Read More. |
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