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| Payne County Jail expands trusty system to women |
| By Tim Ahrens - stwnewspress.com |
| Published: 03/24/2017 |
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The Payne County Jail, like many other county jails according to Sheriff R.B. Hauf, relies heavily on inmates in trusty programs to keep things running in the jail. That could range anywhere from working in the jail's garden, which saved Payne County Sheriff's Office about $5,000 a month in 2015 in reduced food costs to preparing meals under the chef's supervision. Regardless of the task, it plays a large part in keeping the jail operating. "I think county jails across the United States have to rely on trustees," Hauf said. "They do the cooking, cleaning, dishwashing, laundry … we run two shifts of trusties, a nighttime and a daytime. There’s no way we could staff that with employees. No county could." Recently, that meant Payne County Jail began to place female inmates in the trusty program, which essentially cuts sentences in half for inmates eligible based on their sentences as long as they worked in the trusty program and didn't do anything to get their program status revoked. Read More. |
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