THE PACKER: Vertical Farms Changing the Face of Rehabilitation in South Carolina and California Prisons
AmplifiedAg CEO David Flynn is leveraging his military-honed mission of food security to provide incarcerated individuals with nutritious foods and a tangible pathway to decrease recidivism through high-demand ag-tech careers.
Jill Dutton from The Packer learned firsthand from David Flynn, CEO of AmplifiedAg, about AmplifiedAg’s mission to bring safe food to all people. From our first-of-it’s kind partnership with Growing Justice, bringing vertical farming to prisons in SC and CA, to local farmers and researchers who aim to amplify vertical farming as a complement to traditional agriculture.
By deploying high-tech vertical farms inside prison walls, AmplifiedAg is creating a new path for incarcerated individuals, one that leads away from recidivism and toward specialized careers in the growing ag-tech sector. Flynn says agriculture reentry programs have the lowest recidivism rate — at 19% —among any other programming.