Photo from Monroe County Sheriff's Office Animal Farm
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office Children's Animal Farm is a unique animal sanctuary located on the Stock Island Dentention center in the Florida Keys. It's 100% what it sounds like, a petting zoo at a jail, but that is only the outside of the story. The zoo started in 1994 with some ducks and chickens who were plaguing a local golf course and expanded from there as more special needs animals needed help. The Farm is run by one paid staffer and then the prisoners work the farm. Those prisoners get new skills doing work they never may have encountered in the real world, like their recent project. They built a new tortoise habitat for their Redfoots! To follow the farm, visit them
here!