Doing Time in the Garden
Subtitle: The Handbook of Prison Horticulture
Contributors: John Cannizzo (Illustrator)
Publisher: New Village Press
Published: August 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780976605423
Subjects: New York (State); Rikers Island; Life Sciences - Horticulture; Gardening / Horticulture; Therapeutic use; Social Science; Sociology; Rehabilitation; Penology; New York; Gardening / General; Gardening; Criminology; Case studies; Criminals
Description: "In his book, Doing Time in the Garden, James Jiler combines an engaging personal account of running a highly successful horticultural vocation program at the largest jail complex in the United States with a practical guide to starting and managing prison and re-entry gardening programs.

The Greenhouse Project gives horticultural job-training to male and female inmates at New York City's Rikers Island jail system. After release, ex-offenders can intern with the GreenTeam, which provides landscaping and gardening services to community groups and institutions throughout New York State."--pub. desc.