Tender tree seedlings are being nurtured to maturity at the hands of prison inmates as part of a new statewide environmental initiative to plant a million trees by 2011.
“I’m sure we can meet that goal of 1 million trees — We just did about 1,000 here,” said inmate Charlie Davis, originally of Charles County, referring to the seedlings in the field outside the Patuxent Institution, a state-run, maximum-security, correctional facility in Jessup.
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