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Inmates back on litter detail
By cullmantimes.com- Ben Bullard
Published: 02/15/2017

With warmer weather coming, motorists in Cullman County may notice the return of roadside trash pickup crews, manned by local inmates, while driving on area roads.

For the second year in a row, small crews of nonviolent offenders — typically four to six people — are hitting local roadsides to collect trash under the supervision of sheriff’s office personnel.

And they’re collecting a ton of it — literally — at a time.

In two days of work last week along County Road 1742 near Holly Pond, inmates on trash detail collected almost 2,000 pounds of litter. Much of it has accumulated over a long period of time, and ranges from the mundane (bottles and cans) to the unusual (truck tires and scraps of tin roofing).

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