It’s Pea-Pickin’ Time in the Parish

A process that began in February is winding down now. Bossier Parish minimum security prisoners are in the last stage of picking peas on the sheriff's agricultural property near Plain Dealing. To date, they've picked more than 40-thousand pounds of cucumbers, potatoes, onions, and other vegies which, in turn, are used to feed the inmate population at all three parish corrections facilities. Inmates hit the fields before 6 o'clock every morning to plant and then pick. Since the program began in 1995, it's estimated to have saved the Bossier Sheriff's Office nearly $600-thousand on the food bill for inmates.