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NY: Towns must do without prison work crews

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Towns must do without prison work crews State eliminated all but 2 groups By Keith Goldberg Times Herald-Record Posted: February 07, 2009 MOUNT HOPE ? It didn't cost a dime for Mount Hope to re-paint its senior center last summer. Or perform custodial work at its police headquarters and perform some maintenance work on its ball fields. That's because the work was done by crews of inmates from the Otisville state prison, said Mount Hope Supervisor Bill Novak. In Warwick, Supervisor Michael Sweeton said crews from Mid-Orange Correctional Facility helped maintain the town park during the spring and summer months. But the free ride is over. As part of budget cuts instituted by Gov. David Paterson, all three prison work crews at Otisville were eliminated last fall...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 08, 2009 (boomark / email).