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| Inmates provide value through Sentence to Serve program |
| By unioneagle.com- Debbie Griffin |
| Published: 09/03/2015 |
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Jail inmates from Mille Lacs and Sherburne counties help government and not-for-profit entities save money at the same time they shorten their own sentences. The respective sheriff’s office of each county administers the Sentence to Serve program, which offers year-round work crews who work for free and do a number of different jobs. A judge must approve an offender to work on the STS crews, and the offender cannot have committed a crime of violence or against a human. The inmate must agree to participate in the program, and most do because for each day of work they do, they receive a day’s worth of credit to time served. The crews provide all kinds of different services, depending on what the requesting entity needs, but typical jobs include things like shoveling snow, removing buckthorn and unwanted growth, painting, cleaning, maintaining public parks and trails, removing graffiti, picking up trash off roadsides and other public areas, chopping firewood, plant trees, removing debris after storms, setting up or breaking down for special events, maintaining ice arenas, assembling equipment and more. Read More. |
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