Outside the Marion Correctional Institute, Ohio prison employees on Monday will protest the closure of the state's 10 prison farms.
The Ohio Department of Corrections recently announced that the farms would be decommissioned at the end of 2016.
On Monday, the dairy cows on the Marion prison farm are scheduled to be transferred and auctioned off. It's the first step in dismantling the ten Ohio prison farms that have been in operation for last 100 years.
Christopher Mabe is the president of the Ohio Civil Service Employee Association, which represents the 56 individuals who will be out of work once the farms close.
"It's not just about 56 employees or the thousands of inmates this program has positively affected throughout the years,” Mabe says.
The Ohio Food Bank Association supports the protest. The prison farms have supplied local food banks with thousands of pound of fresh produce each year.
