Good Food
Prison Dairies Provide Milk and Eggs for Those Behind Bars
When Lisa Morehouse was reporting in a Central Valley prison a few years ago she was surprised to find a henhouse on the premises. She discovered that roughly 6% of California’s inmates work in food production while behind bars. Their work ranges from coffee roasting to almond farming to milk production.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readWhen Lisa Morehouse was reporting in a Central Valley prison a few years ago she was surprised to find a henhouse on the premises. She discovered that roughly 6% of California’s inmates work in food production while behind bars. Their work ranges from coffee roasting to almond farming to milk production.
In this story she takes us behind bars to meet the men who who gather eggs and milk the cows in California prisons.
