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| County requests prison workers |
| By dailyjournalonline.com- Kevin R. Jenkins |
| Published: 10/01/2018 |
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While St. Francois County is still promoting its Adopt-A-County Road Program, the road and bridge department recently announced it's awaiting approval from the Missouri Department of Corrections to use prisoners to pick up trash along county roads. In response to a question at a recent commission meeting about the county using state prisoners to clean up county roads instead of volunteers, Presiding Commissioner Harold Gallaher said, “We’ve looked at that and it only costs us $7.50 per day, per offender to do that, but you can’t use local offenders for that because you may drive by and see the person that offended your daughter and go get a gun and come back. “We’re looking at federal detainees, but we haven’t done that yet. I think I heard it was moving a little while back, but it’s a slow process. We tried it all last year and we just couldn’t get it done. Another thing is that you have to assign two people of your road and bridge crew to do that and have to supply the porta potty and all that.” Read More. |
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