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VA: McDonnell signs bill allowing prisoners to maintain rest stops

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The state would pay the Department of Corrections $1.50 an hour per inmate." ....but how much does the prisoner get paid? McDonnell signs bill allowing prisoners to maintain rest stops Mar. 20, 2011 | Written by The Washington Post RICHMOND ? Inmates in Virginia prisons learn to grow vegetables, care for horses and cook as they prepare for life outside bars. Now lawmakers want them to take some of their new skills ? in this case, gardening and roofing ? and use them to maintain some of the state's 41 rest stops. Lawmakers, who just completed their annual legislative session, passed a bill allowing inmates to maintain Virginia's rest stops, one of several initiatives concerning prisoner re-entry efforts in Virginia that legislators debated...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).