Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:06:35 AM
The Gazette Telegraph is reporting on Sheriff Terry Maketa's termination of the work release program. Not only is that not a good idea, I wonder why Jeffco can make money and our program costs $700,000 a year.
Quoting:
“It’s definitely a money- maker for us,” said Jefferson County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jennifer Gilmore, who supervises the work-release program. “It’s made so much money, and it’s so popular with the judges, we’re trying to get the county commissioners to fund a stand-alone building dedicated to work-release.”
Last year, Jefferson County earned $1.9 million from its user-funded work-release program, Gilmore said.
I'm not a bleeding heart liberal. I do know that it is better, and cheaper, to keep a prisoner's family fed through his labors, than through mine, as a taxpayer.