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Give Them an Inch, and They’ll Confiscate It

Alabama prison commissioner Ron Jones has ordered that vegetable gardens and potted plants being grown by prisoners be destroyed. “We have never allowed inmates in our prisons to have potted plants,” Jones said. “Today it’s tomatoes and tomorrow it’s marijuana and God knows what else.” (AP) ...Liar. He just didn’t want them to have any food with flavor.


Publication Date: 9 July 1995

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