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Work release program saves Missouri’s Transportation Department millions
By missourinet.com- Alisa Nelson
Published: 10/19/2016

Nearly 500 prison inmates on work release are employed by the Missouri Transportation Department – saving MODOT about $20 million annually. Some minimum security offenders who are nearing their release can apply for work release with MODOT for jobs like mowing and litter removal along roadways. Transportation Department director Patrick McKenna tells Missourinet that the program is helpful, especially during the department’s current tight budget times.

“It’s a significant savings. When we compare salary and benefit costs of our crews to the rates that are paid in through this program and the labor that is performed, that’s where we get to those numbers,” says McKenna. “The program has become something that we rely. It certainly benefits the Department of Transportation, the traveling public and the taxpayer here in Missouri by virtue of the fact that some of the vegetation and the removal programs that we have are done on a more frequent basis than our budget would enable.”

McKenna says the program also benefits the Department of Corrections and the inmates.

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