conservation. sustainability. prison labor and training.   from
prison sus­tain­abil­ity project an blog arti­cle my first two
months work­ing at spp  I can say with con­fi­dence that
work­ing with inmates is not what it sounds like at all. Inmates
are just peo­ple like you and me, peo­ple that have been down on
their luck for one rea­son or another, peo­ple that are pay­ing
their dues to soci­ety and try­ing to make the best out of their
sit­u­a­tion. The major­ity of the inmates we work with are
there because they want to get involved in some­thing
mean­ing­ful, or because they have a pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence in
nurs­ery work, or are just try­ing to make some money and escape
the rou­tine of prison. But what­ever brought them to us, I try
to make it a good expe­ri­ence for them, get them involved in
our work and help them under­stand the big pic­ture of what we
do and why we do it. It is easy to lose focus and inter­est in
what they are doing when they spend a long time just sow­ing and
not think­ing about h