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If you've heard about RFK Jr's "wellness farms," have I got a story for you. I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues. So I'd love to tell you al
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online Wife (emeritus professor of food animal medicine) wonders if there have been studies about the effects of farm work on these target populations. She recalls there was a stu
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@marick@mstdn.social Honestly there's probably some confounding effects in there. Prison farm work programs tend to be used as a "reward" and select the most docile & cooperative inmates. Nobody wants
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Software person (programming and testing). Involved in Agile from relatively early on. One of those grumpy old-timers who think it's lost its way. I retired during Covid. As I’m “broke to harness,” I keep up what was part of my schtick: read widely and oddly, then explain outside-tech ideas to a mostly-techie audience. Instead of talks, my venues are a blog, a podcast (infrequent), and link-heavy Mastodon posts. I like boosting other people’s posts. My leftish # uspol posts are so labeled.
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online She only read the abstract, so I don’t know how well the study was done. (After she moved from clinical duty to administration, she did a fair number of “so how are our students doing post-graduation” studies, so I think (hope!) she’s familiar with a lot of the gotchas.)
Re your point: it probably matters that Vandalia is a prison for misdemeanor offenses. I imaging they skew different than the ones condemned to Illinois’ now-shuttered supermax.
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