DOING TIME IN THE GARDEN

NICKI
MARQUIS

http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2013/11/07/growing-prison-gardens-and-sustainability/

SASKATOON PROVINCIAL CORRECTIONAL

CENTER

SASKATOON PROVINCIAL CORRECTIONAL

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SASKATOON PROVINCIAL CORRECTIONAL

CENTER

http://globalnews.ca/news/2129205/6-charged-after-escape-attempt-at-saskatoon-correctional-centre/

http://globalnews.ca/news/2127027/15-inmates-moved-from-saskatoon-correctional-centre-after-disturbance/

DOING TIME IN THE

GARDEN

http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2013/11/07/growing-prison-gardens-andsustainability/

http://sustainabilityinprisons.org/bloggalleries/blog/

http://sustainabilityinprisons.org/

http://sustainabilityinprisons.org/blog-galleries/blog/

http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2013/11/07/growing-prison-gardens-and-sustainability/

http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2013/11/07/growing-prison-gardens-andsustainability/

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/01/12/san-quentin-inmates-organic-vegetables-insight-gardenprogram

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/01/12/261397333/prison-gardens-help-inmates-grow-their-own-food-andskills

WHAT WILL STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT PRISONS

& GARDENS????
Mental Health
Effects on tax payers

Food/justice movement
Planting/
ecological justice

Retribution
Rehabilitation

Power of isolation
Social justice
Contribution
Therapeutic benefits
Transforming behaviour
by
Developing vocational

Recidivism rates
Transforming mental/
physical health
Connecting with nature

WHEN VALUES SHIFT,

BEHAVIOUR SHIFTS.RE-ENTRY
STARTS ON THE INSIDE
~ BETH WAITKUS @ INSIGHTGARDEN; FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF INSIGHT GARDEN

http://insightgardenprogram.org/

STUDENTS WILL ALSO LEARN.

o By reducing recidivism, we are creating healthy communities &
healthy people
o Healthy people who go back into society are:
o empowered
o can function effectively
o can be productive members of society
o Power also comes through knowledge
o Officers asking inmates for advice on their own yards =
empowerment

STUDENTS WILL ALSO LEARN.

o Power through horticulture therapy
o Smell, sound, taste, feel, touch, sight what you are
denied in prison
o Inmates can learn to work:
o without conflict = good mentally
o as a team & develop social connection working to
achieve a common goal = contribution to larger
community
o Inmates can develop an education in ecological justice = real
skills outside of prison

STUDENTS WILL ALSO LEARN.

o CCCs & BALs:
o As a collaborative effort students will utilize their problemsolving and conflict resolutions skills to organize and design a
proposal
o We will make explicit connections between caring for people and
cultural groups that are marginalized in our society (reflective of
our prison populations) to connections to the environment

STUDENTS WILL ALSO LEARN.

o What to prisons cost us?
o Research pre-prison trip:
o Demographics of prisoners in Canada
o Different styles of prisons
o Ideas about restorative justice