Colo. may put inmates to work on farms
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Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice.
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SPENCER, Iowa -- The tiny jail here has housed many a typical small-town Iowa criminal since its bricks were laid in 1938 -- drunk drivers, drug abusers, the occasional thief. These days, though, Sheriff Randy Krukow walks the cell row and behind the bars sees a new kind of increasingly typical l...
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 17--ROCKY FORD - The Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District is looking at a long-term lease of 11 acres of land it would buy near the Colorado State University Agricultural Research Center near Rocky Ford.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 11--Soon after residents of Arrow Rock began to network with other activists to try stopping a large pig farm planned two miles outside their historic town, they realized their situation was not unique.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 22--Speakers at the Colorado Agricultural Outlook Forum Wednesday in Denver offered varying ideas for farmers to make their operations more environmentally friendly.
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It's hard to find enough green space here for a soccer field, let alone a farm. So why is Farm Aid coming to this concrete-covered city known for crime, poverty and political corruption rather than a place known for corn, beans and hogs?
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 25--ROTATIONAL CROP fallowing, if done properly, can allow a farmer or group of farmers on an irrigation canal to lease water temporarily for much-needed income while holding on to the permanent water rights.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 9--Pueblo County's 1041 land-use regulations are becoming a "smorgasbord for lawyers," as Commissioner Matt Peulen put it.
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By Tim Carpenter  By Tim Carpenter  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  State attorneys and agriculture officials Tuesday urged legislators to prepare for expensive legal wrangling to force Nebraska and Colorado to comply with court-ordered agreements on water consumption.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 2--Lou Ann Brunetto was a music teacher when she took a job with the Farm Service Agency in Western Colorado, signing on as an aerial photographer for a mapping project.
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One of America's most notorious  prisons, Sing Sing, could do more than lock up dangerous  criminals, local officials say.
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 15--CANON CITY - Everyone wants a piece of the state funding pie, but problems with the Colorado Department of Corrections dominated what was billed as a legislative summit Thursday.
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 10--CANON CITY - Correctional Industries will raise more than 3 million tilapia fish each year in its state-of-the-art nursery where inmates cultivate fish instead of flowers inside a converted greenhouse building.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release of more than 20,000 low-risk prison inmates from the nation's largest prison system as a way to save money amid a worsening budget crisis
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As migrant farm laborers avoid Colorado because of tough new immigration laws, the state is offering prisoners to help in the harvest.
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By Matt Tullis, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Dec. 18--It's early in the morning and Colo sits in her normal spot, the center of Cage 1. She is wedged between two concrete trees. A milk crate is on her right, and a rope dangles in front of her.
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By Brittany Dorn, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 24--KILLINGWORTH -- Before this spring, Julie Shepard gave little  thought to the mounds of manure and dirty bedding produced at her horse farm  every day -- except for how best to rid herself of it.