Work Program For Inmates
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In Pulaski County inmates can earn a paycheck even before they finish their sentences.
In Pulaski County inmates can earn a paycheck even before they finish their sentences.
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Work Program For Inmates
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In Pulaski County inmates can earn a paycheck even before they finish their sentences.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipMany Kentucky jails are overcrowded.
Keeping inmates from re-offending is one way to reduce jail populations.
In Pulaski County, inmates can earn a paycheck even before they finish their sentences.
Today, the county jailer told Kentucky lawmakers just two of the 40 inmates that took part in this program have come back to jail.
Their entire paycheck goes to in their bank accounts that they saw when they were working for the factory.
They get the same hourly rate as anyone else would.
And then once they are out, get out of the facility, you know, they've got the money to be able to afford housing.
They got the money to be able to afford cars.
They've got to be able the money to be able to support themselves.
The program in place, Cook County started in 2019.
One lawmaker says the program sounds like a promising model for the rest of Kentucky.
Not every county jail has the same program.
What we have to decide at some point is are we going to continue with the warehouse model or are we going to start implementing rehabilitation programing similar to what you've done in my home county, Rock Hill County?
If I'm convicted of, you know, DUI forth or whatever, I don't have access to this opportunity.
So I'm disadvantaged because my jail doesn't offer the same programing that that that what you all done.
So so it is that's a little bit concerning to me that we don't have mandated standards across the state and we don't offer incentives for innovation like this.
The Jail and Corrections Reform Task Force will meet next month after the election.
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