The state has recently revamped a prison program aimed at addressing Georgia’s widespread farm worker shortage.
The program is already lining up probationers with farmers. Now the state is offering the same to inmates held in transition facilities. The first batch of prisoners have been placed in a Vidalia onion farm.
Brian Robinson, a spokesman for the Governor, says the program makes sense considering many farms have too few workers.
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