In Charleston, Maine, a town of about 1,500 near the center of the state, there is an orchard with 750 apple trees and a farm where a variety of produce is grown.1 This bucolic setting is on the grounds of the Mountain View Correctional Facility, a 374-bed minimum- and medium-security state prison.2 Incarcerated people tend to the apple trees and vegetables, and every year they cultivate 100,000 pounds of produce that wind up on their prison cafeteria, or chow hall, trays.3 Writing for the New York Times in 2021, Patricia Leigh Brown highlighted how Mountain View's prison food service manager Mark McBrine, who also happened to be “an organic farmer with dirt under his fingernails,” was “making the prison a pioneer in a nascent farm-to-prison table movement.”4 According to multiple media outlets that have reported on Mountain View's food system, it is a model to be emulated—both an antidote to dreary prison food and a cost-saver for the state of Maine.5

缅因州查尔斯顿是一个靠近州中心、人口约 1,500 人的小镇，这里有一个种植着 750 棵苹果树的果园和一个种植各种农产品的农场。1这种田园风光位于山景惩教所内，这是一所设有 374 个床位的最低和中等安全级别的州立监狱。2被监禁者照料苹果树和蔬菜，每年他们种植 100,000 磅的农产品，这些农产品最终会出现在监狱自助餐厅或食堂的托盘上。3 2021 年，帕特里夏·利·布朗 (Patricia Leigh Brown) 在《纽约时报》撰文，强调了山景城监狱食品服务经理马克·麦克布赖恩 (Mark McBrine) 是如何“使监狱成为新兴领域的先驱”，他也恰好是“一名手指甲下有污垢的有机农民”。从农场到监狱的餐桌运动。” 4据多家报道山景城食品系统的媒体称，这是一个值得效仿的模式——既是监狱食物乏味的解药，又是缅因州的节省成本的方法。5