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State puts probationers to work
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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.