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Here's a nice blog post about Rikers Island's farm and garden, and here's another really nice one from The City Greens: 'Rikers Island Gardening Therapy is Growing,' by Suyeon Kim, and another byRachel Cernansky for Planet Green: ' Rikers Island Sprouting Green: Gardening Project Helps Ex-Prisoners Plant, Grow, and Not Go Back to Prison.'ДЄ collaboration between the Eden Project and homeless people and prisoners is creating the biggest garden ever to show at Chelsea. The program helps current prisoners, too, but the most help is often needed upon a prisoner's release.

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Primary subject of James Jiler's Doing Time in the Garden (see full reference below). Run by the Horticultural Society of New York's GreenHouse program. Here's an article about the program by Rich Monetti for the Bedford-Katonah Patch, August 16,2010: 'Families Host the Children of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility - Summer visitation program helps ease the pain of separation for children of inmates.' Link to the article. from 'Rikers Island Sprouting Green' by Rachel Cernansky Gardens in Prisons - scroll down for list of referencesД¬hildren's Garden (Mother/Child Garden in a prison)ДЇor more information on this project, see the MLA thesis by Amy Lindemuth and an article by University of Washington Professor Daniel Winterbottom, both in the References section, listed alphabetically: /references One study in San Francisco showed that 29 percent of prisoners were re-arrested within four months of their release, while only 6 percent of those who partook in a gardening program were re-arrested.' 'These types of programs not only enhance the environment by increasing the green:asphalt ratio, but growing food near prison sites improves the nutritional intake of the inmates, as well as trains them for green jobs when they get out-a track that when followed has been proven to reduce the rate at which former inmates return to prison.