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Inmates earning their keep
By The Deseret News
Published: 01/08/2007

PROVO, UT - Eight years ago, Utah County officials asked a $14 million question: Why don't inmates pay for their own incarceration instead of forcing the government to shell out taxpayer dollars for criminal rehabilitation?

The county's answer to that question has turned into the biggest jail-industries program in the United States — a program that, to date, has brought almost $4 million to the Utah County Sheriff's Office. Read more.

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