Inmates training to raise rare butterflies

I think this is what they should be doing with inmates! Inspiration is what gets people to change their life.



Landa, 29, and another inmate from Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women have spent eight hours a day, seven days a week for much of the year reading, writing and watching butterflies.

"It's a wonderful experience and it's very rewarding," Landa said. "It's very interesting and amazing to help populate life."

Earning an average inmate wage of 42 cents an hour, the two women are part of a training program ultimately designed to boost the population of Taylor's checkerspot, a once-thriving species of Northwest butterfly now considered threatened.

Great idea to get them employed in booming,butterfly biz.

They've got nothing else to do, but time...so let them help Planet Earth!

ComputerBreath wrote: They've got nothing else to do, but time...so let them help Planet Earth!

I agree. This is what our prisons should be doing. Give them something to do and something to live for and you will maybe see a change in how they need to be treated. Many people in our prisons didn't have anyone or parents to teach them how to live. I liked this story.