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| Inmates Save $1 Mil. With Odd Jobs |
| By The Boston Herald |
| Published: 01/09/2006 |
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You won't find stunning Monet landscapes or dazzling black-and-white photos of Paris or Rome in this calendar. But you can gaze upon the bare backs of inmates doing odd jobs around Massachusetts' Worcester County in one of the most unusual calendars of 2006. "It's not a pinup," said Worcester County Sheriff Guy Glodis, who is distributing the free 2006 Community Service Calendar, which highlights inmate volunteer work. "We don't expose their actual faces." Glodis uses the calendar to advertise the program, which he doubled from 50 inmates to 100 in his first year in office. Glodis, a former state representative and senator, took over in January 2005 after defeating longtime sheriff John "Mike" Flynn. The program last year saved cash-strapped towns, cities and organizations $1 million in painting, floor tiling, graffiti cleanup and maintenance otherwise paid for with taxes, Glodis said. Free paint jobs saved more than $7,000 at the West Boylston Pool and $25,000 at the Uxbridge Blanchard School. Inmates took on 12 jobs in Auburn in the past year. "These are people who have made mistakes," Glodis said. "They are incarcerated, but they are doing more to pay their debt back to society, rather than sitting idly in a cell." Only inmates on the verge of release are chosen and no sex offenders or violent offenders are eligible. |
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