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| George County leaders relieved to win fight over inmate labor |
| By wlox.com - Patrice Clark |
| Published: 06/19/2013 |
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GEORGE COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - George County leaders and residents say they're relieved the state had a change of heart about closing the county's inmate work center. The center provides more than 100,000 inmate labor hours yearly, and was slated to close next month, along with several others across the state. "Just as happy as I can be," Lucedale Mayor Douglas Lee said of the decision. "I know somewhere down the road they would find a workable solution." "If this CWC would have been closed, you would have seen effects from your household garbage, to your courthouse maintenance, recreation," Community Development Director Ken Flanagan said. The center was one of four the Mississippi Department of Corrections, wanted to cut to save money. But doing so would have been extremely costly to George County. Read More. |
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