An inmate at the Masshalderbuch farm sweeps the yard in front of the organic farm and correctional facility buildings. Photos: Bernd Weißbrod/dpa
In the Swabian Alps south-west of Stuttgart, men milk cows, tend to the birth of a calf and work the soil.
Not unusual for workers on an organic farm – except for one thing: They are all convicted prisoners.
Uh-oh! Daily quota reached.
An inmate at the Masshalderbuch farm sweeps the yard in front of the organic farm and correctional facility buildings. Photos: Bernd Weißbrod/dpa
A prisoner working in the stables of Masshalderbuch farm.
The entry to the public ownership farmstead of Masshalderbuch, which now serves as a open working farm for prisoners.
The farm branch of the Rottenburg correctional institution in south-west Germany is an open working farm with a catch, where the farmers are all prisoners serving sentences for crimes ranging from fraud to assault.
Geckeler says the farm does not make a profit.
A prisoner's room at the farm branch of the Rottenburg correctional institution.
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