[PCA] NEWS: Inmates help beautify help beautify state parks and roadsides

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Sep 19 09:35:39 CDT 2011


http://www.pjstar.com/features/x2137969372/Inmates-help-beautify-help-beautify-state-parks-and-roadsides

Inmates help beautify help beautify state parks and roadsides
Prisoners cultivate native wildflowers and grasses in statewide 
horticulture program
By LESLIE RENKEN (lrenken at pjstar dot com)
of the Journal Star
Posted Sep 18, 2011 @ 10:35 PM

CANTON -- In mid-August, 5,000 native wildflowers and grasses were growing 
in one-gallon pots behind the Illinois River Correctional Center in 
Canton. A small group of inmates in the horticulture vocational training 
program sat on low stools in the sunny courtyard carefully removing dead 
foliage from around each plant.

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