Can gardening transform convicted killers and carjackers? Prison officials get behind the bloom.
WESTOVER, Md. Don Vass, an admitted drug dealer, pulls a cabbage from the ground, then hands it to Walter Labord, a convicted murderer. They are gardening behind soaring brick walls at Marylands largest penitentiary, where a group of inmates has transformed the prison yard into a thriving patch of strawberries, squash, eggplant, lettuce and