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| Opinion: Crews worth cost |
| By Detroit Free Press |
| Published: 08/03/2007 |
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DETROIT, MI - A shortsighted cut in the use of work crews from state prisons will cost communities throughout Michigan millions of dollars. The crews perform necessary jobs for local governments and nonprofit agencies, such as mowing grass, painting, shoveling snow, planting flowers, digging graves, cleaning up state parks and removing brush. The work gets done on the cheap. Contracting agencies pay the state $15 a day for each worker -- $2.50 of which goes to the inmate. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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