From The Crime Report:
On her most recent stay at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Ore., Adria White, 45, knew that she needed more than a drug treatment program.
She was up for release soon, and while that program, which she’d participated in twice before, included useful tools like mindfulness training and behavioral therapy, it did little to prepare her for getting a job on the outside.
“You learn coping skills,” says White, who became dependent on methamphetamines at around age 30.
“But when you get out and you’re poor and struggling, that doesn’t solve your life problems.”
So when her cellmate told her about Lettuce Grow, a sustainable gardening program that takes place at 16 Oregon prisons and juvenile detention centers, she signed up, hoping the skills she’d gain would help her land a job at a nursery or start a community garden in her hometown. Continue reading >>>
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