NC Prisoners Growing and Donating Food to Hungry

North Carolina prisoners are growing their own food and donating to help feed the hungry. Correction Enterprises, the prison industry and inmate job training section of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice, is donating 4,500 cases of canned squash to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina.   The squash was grown and canned by inmates working at the Caledonia Prison Farm in Halifax County.  The Food Bank received the first shipment of two truckloads last week and a second shipment this week.  The entire donation of 4,500 cases will fill five tractor-trailers.  “The staff and inmates who work on the farm are pleased to be able to make this contribution of our extra vegetables this season,” said Correction Enterprises director Karen Brown.  Governor McCrory has proclaimed September as Hunger Action Month in North Carolina.