Central California prison for saving taxpayers over $ 1 million with a prisoner farm

Central California Sheriff’s office provides precious service to prisoners as it saves county taxpayers of millions every year.

Located in the heart of the Golden State is a district of Tulare, a leader in agriculture and a pioneer in prison reform, creating an agricultural farm owned by the county, providing meals to prisoners located in the prison of the Tulare County in the last three decades.

“San Joaquin Central Valley is known for agricultural products and the ability to grow almost everything here,” ” Tulare Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said Fox News Digital. “One of the things we wanted to do from a few years back is to make up for the costs of what it means to feed prisoners every day.”

Boudreaux said that at the peak it could be up to 2,200 prisoners in prison that feeds on three times a day, so several years ago, the county began to use prisoners to grow their own food daily served.

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“They created agricultural land with livestock, pigs and growth ability. And it really became a circle of life outside.”

Boudreaux added that they even have chickens and harvest their own eggs.

“We’re doing our own lucer. Now that we are picking the lucer we pick on 1,100 hectares, which feeds our cattle. We have anywhere between [300] And 400 heads, plus we have the calves that fall. And what I mean by that, the calves were born, and we use these calves and we really feed them adults for the ability of the butcher, “Boudreaux explained.

In addition, Boudreaux said that all the rest of the food from the day in which the prisoners did not eat into “SLOP” to feed the pigs.

“It’s just a great circle of life.”

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Boudreaux said that what the project does is still unique is that they are the only Sheriffs of Departments in California that has some of this caliber for prisoners.

“For one thing, many sheriffs do not have an agricultural space for that. Some are sheriffs or too small or too big.

“Other sheriffs got rid of agricultural operations because of proposal 47. They no longer have a labor force that satisfies the offense or low ceremony status so that they can manage some agricultural operations,” he explained. “We have changed some of our criteria, allowing certain prisoners to go out and work on a farm, which allowed us to keep it and do it.”

Boudreaux said the department was not planning to ever get rid of the program, but noted that when he became a sheriff when he became a sheriff in 2014 The farm was almost closed.

“Fortunately, we swallowed through the difficult times of Coidida, who prevented people from being in objects, so our surgery was injured for a while, but we succeeded and saved the taxpayer, and that is important,” Boudreaux said.

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“I am fiscally responsible for the money coming here. And we save anywhere between $ 1.2 and $ 1.6 million to the taxpayer every year.”

Not only does the farm save millions of tax dollars, but it also provides prisoners to turn their lives and be better equipped after release, Sheriff said.

“One of the focus is to identify those prisoners who would be acceptable to rehabilitation and work programs, and we put them in our agricultural surgery where they learn animal care, they learn harvesting, they learn with food to the table from farm to farm to farm Farm to Farm to Farm to Farm-Do Farm to Farm to Farm to Farm to Farm to Farm to Farm to Farm to the farm -do table -operating table.

He added that they even provide a certification program where prisoners are able to enter and learn how to be certified butchers.

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“We have USDA certified staff who teach and certifies prisoners, so when they return to the field, they can enter the workforce as butchers. They can enter the food stores, which are always looking for butchers, “he said.

“And since San Joaquin Central Valley is a great environment produced by agriculture, which is a better way to train these prisoners to actually embark on the workforce of the first day of release, since he is ready to understand the agricultural surgery or surgery of animal or A services of butcher .

Boudreaux said their hopes to provide these resources The prisoners will not return.

“We would like to reduce our relapse, and this is one way we can really work on it.”