My daughter-in-law Sheri thinks that all the interstate medians should be planted with orchards tended by inmates. The inmates go out there to spray weeds anyway. Why not let them prune trees and pick fruit, selling it back to the community in prison farmers’ markets? They’d get out in the fresh air, earn some money, and do something meaningful. I’d buy from them. How about you?
Before we start promoting prison labor for our food system, maybe we should address the drug laws that disproportionately target black and brown youth?
