Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1899 — Prison Truck Farm. [ARTICLE]

Prison Truck Farm.

Warden Harley has commenced putting his project of working idle convicts on a prison farm into effect. One hundred acres of the Blair lands, just west of the Michigan City prison, have been leased for use of the state, and the warden has set fifty men at work thereon. Some of them are ditching and others plowing and planting. The land will be planted in potatoes, onions, cabbage and other vegetables. All the products which will not be used at the prison will be sold at the Chicago market. More prisoners will be employed on the farm when their services shall be needed.