13 WTHR - Indianapolis News |Prison garden helps feed inmates, staff
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BUNKER HILL, Ind. (AP) - This garden is surrounded by a steel fence topped by razor wire, and the gardeners need special permission to work in it.
The garden is inside the Miami Correctional Facility near Peru, in north central Indiana.
In the third year of planting, inmates have raised some three-thousand pounds of zucchini, green peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, okra, green beans, summer squash, cantaloupe and cabbage.
Prison Supervisor Terry Stanton says despite a late start planting this year, the yield is up nearly one-thousand pounds from last year, with the harvest still going.
When the harvest is large enough, some of the vegetables end up on the trays in the prison's dining hall, helping to keep food costs down.
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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