Ledger Live for Wednesday October 8th, 2008 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. On today’s show: The Ledger lives on, we interview editor Jim Willse, over 300 police officers attend the annual Blue Mass, and comments.

Over 300 police officers attended the annual Blue Mass at St. Bernard of Clairvaux Church in Bridgewater. The mass is held to honor law enforcement officers from Somerset, Middlesex, Hunterdon and Warren counties. (Video by John O’Boyle/The Star-Ledger)

Ledger Live for Tuesday October 7th, 2008 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. On today’s show: The Fed steps in, Springsteen rallies for Obama, and the Circus comes to town and along with it, a couple of PETA protesters.

With six dairy and crop farms totaling 1,930 acres, the New Jersey Department of Corrections is one of the largest farmers in the state, according to the Department of Agriculture. Dairy farms run by the DOC‘s self-sufficient AgriIndustries program maintain some 700 animals statewide and run almost exclusively on prison labor. Prisoners either live on the farm or are bussed in as day laborers. And though its tough work, rolling hills beat a prison cell any day, say these minimum security inmates. (Video by Nyier Abdou/The Star-Ledger)