Impact justice will complete a feasibility study to explore the potential for increasing regional food procurement by prisons and jails within the six new england states maine new hampshire vermont…

Impact justice will complete a feasibility study to explore the potential for increasing regional food procurement by prisons and jails within the six new england states maine new hampshire vermont massachusetts rhode island and connecticut. This project will establish a technical assistance entity designed to connect new england correctional facilities with local and regional food producers including farmers ranchers and processors. The core activity involves a twoyear assessment beginning with a comprehensive evaluation of food procurement needs and challenges faced by these facilities. Subsequently the project will investigate barriers preventing local and regional producers from supplying food hubs to these institutions identifying specific support requirements. The anticipated outcome is the determination of the feasibility of developing a consultancy modela cooperative owned and operated by individuals directly impacted by incarcerationto facilitate farmtocorrections procurement. This consultancy would act as a central resource streamlining the connection between food suppliers and correctional facilities. The beneficiaries of this work include the correctional facilities themselves the regional food producers and the individuals who will operate the new consultancy.