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St. Tammany work-release problems trigger move to change state rules
By bayoubuzz.com
Published: 05/12/2014

When St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain decided to set up a private work-release program in Covington in 2008, he didn’t seek out interested bidders. Instead, he hired his campaign treasurer and a group of political supporters to run it.

He turned to another group of friends a few years later when he opted to privatize the Slidell work-release program that his office had been running for about 15 years, this time informally notifying the public of his plan by mentioning it in a story in a weekly newspaper.

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