Up on "The Farm"

wbur.org Boston   "We have a capacity of 340 and we all live together," [Superintendent Joe] Furnari said. "And we treat [each other] with respect as if you're living here. I tell the guys: it's like living at your grandmother's house. You wipe your feet, take your hat off and watch your mouth. All kidding aside."   The Essex County Correctional Alternative Center in Lawrence has no jail bars, no uniforms, no guards and no fence. Designed to look and feel like life on the outside, The Farm embodies the philosophy that the way to turn inmates around is to push them into treatment, training and supervised early re-entry on the other side of the wall.   Assistant Superintendent Jim Petrosino helped design the re-entry program. "If you get these guys a job, housing and have them go to meetings,those are the three important things to keep these guys from coming back,"   read the rest here   Comments?