This is from the states but seeing as Canada’s last prison farm was shut down just earlier this year it’s still relevant. Harper claims those who participated weren’t entering the agricultural sector after release, and that the farms served too few of the inmate population. What Harper should have been looking at was the rate of employment overall after release, not specifically which sector they entered. http://www.saveourfarms.ca/ makes some great arguments that of course mean very little to a Conservative government.