Another escapee from the LCDC!

I think they get tired of feeding and housing them.  They just say that they runndoft, and hope that the criminal leaves the state.

i'm sure it will turn out to be obama's fault.

How much to place a barbed wire enclosure around the roof...and does the county commission have the money to pay for it?

They take them out somewhere, turn them loose, then claim they "escaped". No, they didn't escape, you set them loose. Like my friend's mom when we were young, opening the cage door for the wild rabbit my friend had caught, then telling her it had "gotten loose." LOL!

It's not like Cool Hand Luke.  When the work release inmates don't return after work, they don't exactly get out the bloodhounds.

 

Work release is just the County's way to look like perpetrators are being punished and a show that there may be a repayment of one's crimes.  The work release inmates are well known to the sheriff's department and city police, and they're the same faces year after year until they do something more serious to get them into the state penal system.

 

Without work release, the county would have to build a much larger jail.  They simply don't have the money to build a big jail or the money to feed more inmates.  At least under work release, the county gets some "room and board" from the inmates.

Work release is a joke.  They're under staffed and don't conduct job site checks.  I understand that work release has it's place but, if you break the rules you go back to jail.  It's a privilege in lieu of being incarcerated.  You abuse it, you lose it.  All that being said; It still doesn't fix the problems with the LCDC's lack of security measures.  Doesn't do any good if you take them from work release and can't keep them secured in a jail cell.

 

A few questions, IH:

 

1. Wouldn't the majority or prisoners in work release be state, not county, if they were not placed in Community Corrections?

 

2. If an inmate doesn't show up for work, doesn't the employer report it? Or doesn't the corrections person in charge have a correct schedule?

 

3. Do some inmates have two jobs? In other words, they work until 3 or 4 at the first one, then go to a second one from 5 or 6 on? I presume being male they don't have to return to lockup?

1. Yes

2. Sometimes the employer reports it.  I don't believe that they are required to do so.  It also depends on the integrity of the employer.  As for the schedule, I believe they have to supply one, but they don't have the man power to check on all the cons. 

3. I'm not sure how many jobs they can have.  After work they are required to return to the center.

Seems like it would be cheaper to install more razor wire around the roof than all the manpower and resources used to hunt down escaped criminals.