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| Worker-inmates to be housed in Kenai cannery |
| By peninsulaclarion.com- Ben Boettger |
| Published: 05/04/2018 |
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As inmates in the work-release program at Kenai’s Wildwood Correctional Complex prepare to go to work at the town’s seafood canneries, the Alaska Department of Corrections is preparing for what Corrections Commissioner Dean Williams called the program’s “next step” in a March 7 presentation to Kenai’s City Council. Wildwood inmates serving the last months of their sentence will now get an early start on their return to outside life by living in dormitories at Kenai’s Pacific Star Seafoods cannery. “What I’ve been proposing … is instead of these people coming back to the facility at night, and because PacStar has all kinds of housing, why wouldn’t we just have them finish out the last part of their sentence here in the fish processing plant, where now they’re employed, they’re around other people that are working?” Williams said. “They have function again, they have purpose in their life.” Since Wildwood began allowing selected groups of inmate volunteers to hold jobs at Kenai’s fish processors in 2012, the inmates have been bused daily between the prison and their workplaces. When the work-release inmates go to work at the canneries this year, they’ll be living under electronic monitoring in dormitories on-site. Room and board costs will be paid from their wages. Read More. |
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