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Days pass faster for inmates helping feed the needy on Aroostook County farm
By bangordailynews.com- Julia Bayly
Published: 06/29/2015

HOULTON, Maine — When 30-year-old Abdul Mohamud is done with his 10-hour shift on a southern Aroostook organic farm, he and his fellow farm hands don’t hop into their cars and grab a bite to eat or cold drink on their way home.

Instead, they are driven back to the Aroostook County Jail in Houlton where they are serving out sentences for crimes ranging from drug trafficking to domestic abuse.

It’s all part of a joint program between the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office and the nonprofit Friends of Aroostook, which annually donates thousands of pounds of fresh produce to food pantries and to the elderly.

Last year, the organization donated 230,000 pounds of food planted, tended and harvested with inmate labor, according to Dale Flewelling, founder of the nonprofit.

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