http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:30:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/no-more-silk-suits-for-jailed-mobsters-headlines.html Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:17:33 +0000 Italy's Ucciardone prison had a reputation for being more of a five-star hotel than a lockup for criminals, but a new policy calls for a shutdown of their extravagant prison lifestyles, starting with designer label suits.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/can-food-be-a-tool-for-soft-control.html Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:23:42 +0000 As part of Food for Thinkers week, Bryan Finoki turns the attention of food writing onto incarcerated cuisine.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/indian-prisoners-to-operate-call-centers.html Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:05:03 +0000 High-security prison launching new scheme to use inmates as call center workers.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/plog-allows-prisoners-to-blog-while-serving-their-sentence.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:01:13 +0000 P:log is a concept system that allows prisoners to keep their thoughts in blog form while serving their sentence. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/gardening-prisoners.html Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:52:17 +0000 The Insight Garden Program has been teaching inmates at the San Quentin Prison in San Francisco, CA gardening skills since 2002. With about 40 of the 1,000 male prisoners enrolled, the program hopes to give inmates a vocational skill that they can later use to get a job in addition to providing them with a spiritual outlet. The prisoners’ labor has long been utilized by San Fransisco’s Bay Area residents in the form of goods like chairs and cabinets. The prison may now export vegetables, too, as the inmates move from a small flower-and-herb garden to a vegetable garden –Read more...]]>