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GARDENING BEHIND BARS: Where Plants Have The Power To Transform
When Ellen Baron goes to work each day, she goes to prison.
A Michigan state prison.
Not as guard,
but as a horticultural instructor.
Her students have robbed convenience stores, bought...
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GARDENING BEHIND BARS: Where Plants Have The Power To Transform
When Ellen Baron goes to work each day, she goes to prison.
A Michigan state prison.
Not as guard,
but as a horticultural instructor.
Her students have robbed convenience stores, bought and sold drugs,
and gotten caught.
Ellen Baron is one of my heroes.
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Women are the fastest-growing group of people going to prison.
Some say the system is broken.
Christina Rathbone, author of A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars, says "The U.
S.
incarcerates more people each year than any place in the world other than China.
The fastest-growing
group within those incarcerated is women.
Women who are mothers, primary care givers between
the ages of 15 to 25, all there due to a non-violent offense, usually drug use.
"
Rathbone spent five years conducting interviews and writing the book, which places the system
under a microscope.
"Women in general are affectionate people, and they take that away from you
[in pri
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