Utah special needs students pick out pumpkins grown by prison inmates

Midvale • Two girls holding a teacher’s hands walked gingerly out of Jordan Valley School, toward a lawn decorated like a pumpkin patch on Wednesday morning. When they got nearer to the pumpkins, one girl skipped in place.They, along with their classmates, excitedly picked out pumpkins that had been specifically grown for them by inmates at the Utah State Prison.The 32 inmates involved in the prison’s Green Thumb Nursery grew 2,000 pumpkins this year, and donated two truckloads