Ga. puts probationers to work harvesting crops
Story Date: 6/22/2011

 

Source:  Ray Henry and Kate Brumback, WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS, 6/22/11

It's 3:25 p.m. in a dusty cucumber field in south Georgia. A knot of criminal offenders who spent seven hours in the sun harvesting buckets of vegetables by hand have decided they're calling it quits - exactly as crew leader Benito Mendez predicted in the morning.

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