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Prison garden gives inmates an outlet
By triblive.com- Doug Oster
Published: 10/14/2016

A group of women laughs as they pull back lush green tomato leaves, revealing pepper plants growing underneath filled with tiny fruit.

“They look too adorable to eat,” says one.

There is such a feeling of happiness and enthusiasm in this group, it feels infectious. It's not an uncommon sight in many gardens — the difference here is this one is surrounded by a 20-foot-tall fence topped with razor wire.

The vegetable garden at SCI Cambridge Springs has been here for six seasons, and the past four have seen a marked improvement in production with help from Valerie Walton and her team from the Penn State Master Gardeners of Crawford County.

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