LESLIE - It's 3:25 p.m. in a dusty cucumber field in south Georgia. A knot of criminal offenders who spent seven hours in the sun harvesting buckets of vegetables by hand have decided they're calling it quits - exactly as crew leader Benito Mendez predicted in the morning. Unless the cucumbers come off the vine soon, they will become engorged with seeds, making them unsellable.
State puts probationers to work