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| City Program Helps Pisoners Get Out |
| By blog.seattlepi.com |
| Published: 01/31/2011 |
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Inmates at Oak Harbor’s lock up now have a get-out-of-jail-free card. The price for their freedom? Spending their daylight hours performing community service jobs around town. “Eight hours is equal to 24 hours in the pokey,” City Administrator Paul Schmidt said. The program was created to fill a gap left by the Washington Department of Corrections two years ago when it discontinued an inmate work program due to the rising cost of prisoner transport. The program worked by allowing municipalities to hire criminals for the bargain price of $1 dollar a day. Read More. |
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