Green jobs for prisoners
Inmates in four Washington state prisons are joining the green jobs revolution.
Photo: hamner.jonathan/Flickr
One of the department’s sustainability programs is a partnership with Evergreen State College. The pilot program features several activities including a moss-in-prison research project, a lecture series, an onsite greenhouse and garden, the use of worms for composting, recycling, beekeeping and water management.
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This is no doubt a very good step to nourish the mother earth and also the good nature of the person but I think before that we have to train the prisoner about the importance and beauty of the nature because I have observed that most of the prisoners become mentally disturbed persons and have a lot of negative thinking about the society and have the emotions of revenge so before letting them to do the green job it will be a very good thing to educate them and turn their thinking onto the.... More
DMW's comment on this post, breathlessly titled "This is the Revolution" is the silliest thing I've read all day. Yes, hon, brutal gang members, heartless rapists, and cold-blooded murderers are going to be magically transformed into yoga-practicing, granola types simply by messing around with worms and compost.
You realize, of course, that prisons are controlled by race-based gangs, that rape of smaller and weaker cons is common, and that although they're forbidden from having cell.... More
I love hearing stories like this, it gives me so much hope. Especially after listening to all the debate about there not being such a thing as global warming and the ignorance and push back to new laws that support sustainability. This program will change prisoners from the heart up! Once they see what the earth's makeup is they won't be able to help but be transformed. This has got to be the best form of rehabilitation imaginable. Whoever's idea this is deserves an award. They will.... More
