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marble falls

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25. Fortunately Mueller knows and with a Democratic House we will, too. The dairy I meant ...
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:15 PM
Jan 2019

wasn't one of his family's dairies - but maybe this one:

http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/california-prison-dairy-gives-inmates-job-skills-and-a-sense-of-purpose/

Prison Dairy Gives Inmates Job Skills — And A Sense Of Purpose

Lisa Morehouse, KPBS, 11/5/14

Inside the secure perimeter in the milk processing facility at Corcoran state prison, Ryan Mons (left) and Edward Wilson give a tour. Wilson’s job involves testing the milk for bacteria. “I take pride in what I do,” he says.

Making license plates is the stereotypical job for a prisoner, but in California’s Central Valley, a group of inmates are doing very different work, supplying milk to almost every prisoner in the state system.

They earn just 35 to 95 cents an hour, but inmates at Corcoran state prison say the job gives them plenty of other benefits.

“I like coming out here to be away from the people in the yard,” Jose Franco tells me. He got locked up for vehicle theft. I watch him move about 20 cows inside the milking building, then gently attach pumps to their teats and start milking. Franco has never worked with animals or agriculture before, but for four months, he’s clocked in here at 4 a.m. every day he can — even though he’s only assigned to work here five days a week.

The dairy sits on 30 acres, on prison grounds but outside what’s called the “secure perimeter.” Corcoran is a high-security prison. Only inmates deemed to pose the lowest security-risk can work at the dairy.

Just outside the milking building, inmate Tony Sao maneuvers a loader to scoop oats and hay which get mixed in a feeder. He’s been at this job for a year, as he does time for grand theft.

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