Florida inmates make, sell their own hot sauce

[August 10, 2009]  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A group of Tampa inmates is offering a taste of what it's like jail -- no locks, bars or handcuffs required. But you'd better have an tough stomach to use more than a dash of their "Jailhouse Fire Hot Sauce."

Minimum-security Hillsborough County Jail inmates offer it in "Original," "Smoke" and "No Escape" varieties, all made from their jail-grown peppers.

They came up with the recipe and started selling it in 2005. Since then, horticulture instructor Allen Boatman estimates they've made $10,000 on the sauce. Each bottle is $7.

The income is used to keep up the greenhouse and buy basic supplies.

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Information from: St. Petersburg Times, http://tampabay.com/

[Associated Press]

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