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| Inmate Work Program Funding at Risk |
| By republican-eagle.com |
| Published: 03/10/2010 |
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Chris Faust has days when he tumbles into his cot at the Goodhue County jail exhausted and worn out. He falls asleep immediately. The fatigue is worth it for Faust, who knocked three months off his time behind bars working on the county's Sentencing to Service crew. "Instead of sitting in jail doing nothing ... you get to do some good for the community to pay for the bad you did," said Faust, who will be released from jail Tuesday. "Plus, you gain a lot of knowledge. It's on-the-job training." Faust is upset that counties may be forced to yank the popular program - an alternative punishment for some nonviolent offenders - under a proposal by Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The governor's state budget-balancing plan proposes eliminating a $3 million state subsidy for the STS program in an attempt to protect funding to prisons and other corrections programs. "With the current budget situation, we really had to look at preserving our core functions, and that's our prisons and our supervision of offenders in the community," Minnesota Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sarah Berg said. Read More. |
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