Innovative program pairs incarcerated women with endangered butterflies: 'Making the world a better place'

Innovative program pairs incarcerated women with endangered butterflies: 'Making the world a better place'

Mission Creek Correctional Facility is giving a select handful of female prisoners the opportunity of a lifetime to help scientists revive an endangered species. Just a two-hour drive from Seattle, seven women in the system are participating in a yearlong program to revive Taylor's checkerspot — endangered native butterflies of the Pacific Northwest — by harvesting butterfly eggs and raising the larvae to release into the wild. According to The …