Colorado could let inmates work on farms
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Colorado is considering letting prison inmates work on private farms after farmers complained that an illegal-immigration crackdown has left them short-handed, officials said.
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Mar. 4--GALETON -- The cornerstone of a growing dairy industry in Weld County is going up not far from this small community in the heart of the county.
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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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CHINO, California  - A landlocked California men's prison aims to keep inmates from returning to jail by putting them in deep water -- training them for undersea construction and dam repair.
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By Anonymous  The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service has made available up to $800,000 for projects in Colorado through Conservation Innovation Grants in fiscal year 2007.
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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - Prison inmate Ricky Clauff just wanted a little justice. When Clauff was in Hall County jail in April, early one week he ordered a milkshake from the jail commissary and paid $11.25 for the regular Friday delivery.
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USDA Secretary Mike Johanns has ordered that agency administrators come up with a plan for replacing an aging AS/400-based system that administers farming programs and issues payments to farmers.
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By Dennis Pollock, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--A program that had its beginnings in Fresno County may enable people across the country to start small farms of their own.
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Solar installers look to sunny Colorado for new projects.
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By Kimberly Trone, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Feb. 6--The Riverside County Board of Supervisors today will consider a  financial agreement on a land swap that could lead to expansion of the  downtown Riverside jail.
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By Carol Demare, Albany Times Union, N.Y. Jun. 18--ALBANY -- A new county law was just what Teri Conroy needed to protect her small llama farm in Altamont.
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A bootmaker to world leaders, including President Bush and Vicente Fox, is in a Colorado jail, charged with money laundering and conspiring to illegally smuggle the skins of protected animals into the U.S. to provide exotic footwear for high-end clients.
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Martha Stewart will do her time farther from home than she had hoped, at a remote West Virginia prison where inmates sleep in bunk beds and rise at 6 a.m. to do menial labor for pennies an hour.
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For Nevada corrections officials, finding the software they needed to link the state's 24 remote prisons wasn't nearly as tough as figuring out how to connect them all.
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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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The deaths of two dairy workers who were asphyxiated by gases rising from a fetid stew of cow manure could have been prevented if the farmer responsible for their safety had given them the proper training and equipment, prosecutors said Monday during opening statements in a case against the farmer.
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GARY, Ind. - The small windows on Gary City Jail cell doors are just the right size for a tray of food to slide in or a skinny inmate to squeeze out, police learned on Saturday.