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NV: Another "heart-warming" story about the value of exploited priosner labor

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

When things get tough in Tonopah, residents call on inmates to help fix roofs and fight wildfires. Now state budget cuts threaten to close the prison. By Ashley Powers May 5, 2009 Tonopah, Nev. -- Diane Perchetti couldn't pull off the Easter celebration alone. Her to-do list was too lengthy: stack chairs, mop floors and haul out the decorative jail cell from the recent Muckers Ball fundraiser. She phoned Bob Bottom, who oversees the local minimum-security prison camp. As usual, he sent over the inmates. In this former boomtown forgotten by much of the state, the small prison is a savior for residents and the cash-strapped town manager. Supervised inmates shovel snowed-in driveways, yank out weeds, clean rain gutters, slash brush and dig graves...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).