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The Jail House Greenhouse

By Ash-har Quraishi | Published June 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »

When a judge slapped Adolf Jerger with a 6-month sentence for contempt of court he never imagined his time in jail would include growing produce for upscale Chicago restaurants. For more than 27-years Jerger worked as a mechanic.  Now behind bars in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, he is four months into earning his Master Gardener [...]

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