Prison Gardens

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Friend, 

There have been farming programs in prisons for a very long time.  It has 
been said that the Prison Farm at Anglola Prison, in Louisiana is one of the 
largest organic gardens in the country.  However, rehabilitation is not central to 
the Angola Prison mission ( one of the nation's toughest, with a large death 
row. ) A documentary, "The Farm - Life Inside Angola Prison (1998) is 
occasionally seen on PBS, and can be borrowed through some video outlets on VHS. 

Here are  programs that sort of qualify as community garden programs in 
prisons with a strong rehabilitative bent: 

1) Cook's County Sheriff's Garden:  <A 
HREF="http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/~uplink/programs/dscigarden.html";>Sheriff's Garden</A>

2) The NY Horticultural Society (<A HREF="http://www.hsny.org/";>NY Hort</A> ) 
runs a program out of Riker's Island called Greenhouse ( <A 
HREF="http://www.hsny.org/html/greenhouse.htm";>Greenhouse</A> .) 

3) David K. Hackenberry, HTR
Colorado Dept. of Corrections
Pueblo Minimum Center
PO Box 3
Pueblo, Colorado 8100
e-mail: dhackenberry@yahoo.com

Mr. Hackenberry says, "I am running a prison garden program for female 
inmates in Pueblo Colorado.  Including gardens, greenhouses, landscaping and floral 
design.  I have a list of contacts around the country and world who are using 
gardens in prisons.  And I have been documenting the success rate of gardeners 
released from my facility.I would be happy to share info with you."

4) There are prison gardens and horticultural therapy programs throughout the 
50 states.  One example of this is in Missouri's penal system ( <A 
HREF="http://www.mdn.org/1996/STORIES/GARDEN.HTM";>MO - Prison Gardens</A> ) Web searches 
using the words "Prison Garden" or "Prison Farm" or "Horticultural Therapy in 
Prisons" should get you some interesting leads.  

5) Hort Therapy and Prison Gardens are quite common in England, Australia and 
throughout Europe.  The 2001 English film "Green Fingers" is based on a group 
of real life English Prison Gardeners. 

Good Luck, 
Adam Honigman
Volunteer, 
 <A HREF="http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org/";>Clinton Community Garden</A>

<< Subj:     [cg] Re: community_garden digest, Vol 1 #1508 - 5 msgs
 Date:  8/7/03 2:34:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:  hlt@ceimaine.org (Hannah Thomas)
 Sender:    community_garden-admin@mallorn.com
 To:    community_garden@mallorn.com

 I have a question around community gardening and prisons/health centers.

 are there cases of community gardens being used to rehabilitate prisoners?
 or to help in recuperating patients? I would be grateful to hear of specific
 examples

 Kind regards

 Hannah Thomas
 hlt@ceimaine.org >>

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