Program Connects Prisons with Nature

With more than 2 million people behind bars, the United States has the largest incarcerated population in the world. But in a growing number of American prisons, inmates are doing more than just time — they are rearing endangered plants, animals and butterflies for release in the wild. Past two metal detectors and multiple guard-posts topped with razor wire sits Washington State's Stafford Creek prison greenhouse complex, where a small crew in standard prison-issue khakis sows...

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