Jail's work farm may help cut food-pact costs BY SUSANNE CERVENKA • FLORIDA TODAY • July 24, 2008 Johnny Lee Holder hoed a row of okra at the Brevard County inmate work farm, tearing out the weeds that would otherwise choke out the growing vegetable. "I'll give it a couple weeks, and we should have blooms," said Holder, 61, who is serving time for a drunken-driving conviction by working at the farm for eight hours a day before returning to his Cocoa home. "It'll be a good vegetable." Soon, that okra and a cornucopia of other vegetables grown at the farm will help Brevard County Sheriff's Office cut the cost of feeding inmates at the jail. Like homes, schools and all other places where meals are served, correctional facilities across the state and country are coping with the rising cost of food. From increasing the price it...
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