Tilapia farming prepares prison inmates for live on the outside
The new-hired “employees” had to apply for a position, go through and interview process, have a high school diploma, and possess good math scores. The first batch of fish were shipped from New Mexico in large bags and delivered to the prison by UPS. An article in the Jackson Hole Star Tribune reviled that the new facilities at the prison cost USD 2.1 million and was a part of a state-wide effort to provide career-building opportunities for inmates to make them ready to re-enter life outside the prison, and the workplace. The newly arrived tilapia will be grown to market size over the next nine months and then shipped to a farm in North Dakota before they are sold to various markets throughout the United States. It is expected that as the facility becomes fully operational, about 100,000 tilapia will be raised here each year.
