The point is that for some reason you think that if you get these skills, you can only work in agriculture. What I am hearing from construction and many other industries is that they value this program because of the work ethic it teaches and that they desire people coming out of these programs for things like construction and other programs. So a real comparison would be the statistics of those coming out of other programs versus those coming out of the prison farm program in terms of employment, period, and not just in agriculture.
On March 25th, 2010. See this statement in context.