{"id":3229,"date":"2008-11-03T22:40:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2008-11-03T22:40:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:40:48","slug":"eco-carceration-inmates-recycling-reusing-and-rehabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/eco-carceration-inmates-recycling-reusing-and-rehabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Cuts Costs as Inmates Use Compost for Organic Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Convicted murderer Robert Knowles stands in the morning sunlight, composting food scraps from the chow hall and coffee grounds from the prison Headquarters.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“It’s nice to be out in the elements,” he says, as he stirs the dark, rich compost that will assist the soil at a small farm where he and other inmates of the Cedar Creek Corrections Center work.[social_buttons]<\/p>\n

Inmates of the facility, 25 miles from the Washington State Capital, raise bees, grow organic tomatoes and lettuce, and compost 100 percent of food waste<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Eldon Vail, secretary of the Washington Department of Corrections says “It reduces cost, reduces our damaging impact on the environment and engages inmates as students.<\/p>\n

“In 2007, states spent more than $49 billion to feed, house, clothe, treat and supervise 2.3 million offenders, the Pew Center on the States reports.<\/p>\n

Cedar Creek isn’t the only prison to go green either. The Indiana Department of Corrections has installed water boilers that run on waste wood chips and built a wind turbine at one prison that generates about 10 kilowatts an hour and saves over $2,000.00 a year.<\/p>\n

In addition, Ironwood State Prison in Blythe, California has 6,200 solar panels and actually sends energy back to the grid, enough to power over 4,000 homes a year, while Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution inmates recycle scraps from old prison uniforms to make diaper bags for women’s shelter.<\/p>\n

Other than helping the planet, does this Eco-Carceration have any societical benefits for the inmates? Nalini Nadkarni – an environmental studies professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, notes anecdotal evidence that it’s working.<\/p>\n

“They are stimulating their minds and having conversations with each other that are different than “How much more time do we have left?” he said.<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Leadenhall<\/a> on Flickr<\/a> under Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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