Prison-grown veges given back to community

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Vegetables being grown in prisons throughout the country are being given back to the community.

Vegetables grown at Spring Hill Prison in the Waikato are donated to food banks and to the information centre at Te Kauwhata for distribution.

At Rimutaka Prison, five units are growing and donating vegetables to local marae and food banks.

Principal Corrections Officer Tracy Wells plans to extend the gardens there by 1,000 square metres.

Further up the North Island, in just one day, Tongariro/Rangipo Prison gave 110 kilograms of potatoes, six kilos of carrots and three kilograms of beans to the Turangi Food Bank.