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Utah inmates to get unique chance at public service
By sltrib.com- Mike Gorrell
Published: 09/23/2014

Salt Lake County Jail inmates will get a chance to help save the lesser chub from extinction.

Sheriff Jim Winder convinced the County Council this week to let him take $150,000 out of a prisoner-services account to develop a pond next to the jail that would be used to breed the endangered fish.

"Once we do the ground work and get this thing moving along, all the labor will be inmate labor," Winder said. "They’ll learn science, math and the biology of the lesser chub. It is a very cool project."

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