Rehabilitation, recycle, reuse.

Thursday, April 21, 2016
NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia's prison system was commended for an innovative program, in which inmates are seeing the fruits of their labor, literally.
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Here at the corrections center in the northeast, they've started what's called a food recovery project, in which tons of wasted food is composted, and re-used, to grow a fruit orchard and several vegetable gardens.

Thursday, officials with the environmental protection agency praised the program, which also gives many of the inmates valuable hands-on training in horticulture and gardening.
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