At This Women's Prison, Inmates Grow, Harvest, and Eat Lettuce from a Vertical Farm

Camille Graham Correctional Institution in South Carolina operates the first controlled agriculture operation in a U.S. prison, where about 15 women inmates participate in a 20-week hydroponic farming program. The facility produces over 3,000 heads of lettuce weekly, sold back to three women's prisons where inmates eat the produce. The Growing Justice initiative, run by criminal justice nonprofit Impact Justice, launched a second location in California this summer.