1. In your Op-ed “New York Should Make Milk, Not Prisons,” you implied the dependency on prisons as an economic driving force led to a decline in the dairy industry with phrases such as “Each dollar our state spent imprisoning people during the last 40 years was a dollar it could have given to the farm next door. As a result, dairy farmers suffered. Nationally, there were 650,000 dairy farms in 1970 and today there are only 54,000.” Do you believe there is a direct cause and effect relationship between the two?

2. The Ogdensburg prison and the Moriah prison were scheduled to close in 2010. However, this was prevented by a lobbying campaign. How does Milk Not Jails respond to obstacles like this?