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Published August 18, 2009, 12:00 AM

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Wilmer Kingery loads potatoes in a cart at Southeastern Correctional Institution in Lancaster, Ohio. Overtaxed food banks and underfunded governments are turning increasingly to prisoners for free labor to feed the hungry. (AP)
Read the article: Inmates grow, gather veggies, to feed the hungry