“I’ve seen some great success stories over all these years working with this population!”
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of NCIA News. For more information on NCIA News, please go to National Correctional Industry Association(link is external).
When he immigrated to the US in 1999 to work with an international produce grower with football-field sized green houses in eastern Arizona, David Leitch had no idea that he was about to start a partnership that would endure for nearly 20 years ─ and, hopefully for many more to come. There were significant challenges for an operation committed to providing low cost, cherry tomatoes and other specialty produce to big box stores across the country. There was the constant worry that the necessary water for cooling and nourishing the plants might not be available. There was the extreme heat of the Arizona summers. There was also the challenge of maintaining a workforce of hundreds of minimum-wage pickers and packers in the rural areas far from the metropolitan sprawl of Phoenix, where the green houses were located. More…
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