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State Pen planting project helps inmates give back to community
By kfyrtv.com- Daniela Hurtado
Published: 06/06/2018

BISMARCK, N.D. - The State Penitentiary has added another project that inmates can get involved in.

The prison has built an area for planting produce.

They will be donating the produce grown at the prison to the soup kitchen and Ruth Meiers.

The residents say they're excited to be a part of something bigger.

Behind the fences at the State Pen, three inmates are a part of a plan bigger than the correctional system.

"Knowing that the work that I'm doing now, is going to help feed some of that and feed some of them people is extremely important to me and very exciting," said inmate Chris Vernon.

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