Title: Doing Time in the Garden
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.
Subjects: Horticulture, Criminals, Case studies, Rehabilitation, Gardening, Therapeutic use, Study and teaching, Prisoners, Education, Recidivism, Prevention, Horticultural Society of New York