Our Views: ; Inmates Could; Help the State; Having Convicted Felons Pick Up Roadside Trash Is Just Sensible
Charleston Daily Mail › October 19, 2007
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IN the first half of the 20th century, the state used prison inmates in chain gangs to build roads. The convicted felons were willing to work just to be outside of the Penitentiary.
But as time marched on, the costs rose, and by 1956, the program was ended.See the full content of this document
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Our Views: ; Inmates Could; Help the State; Having Convicted Felons Pick Up Roadside Trash Is Just Sensible
But the idea was not abandoned. In 1986, Donald Bordenk...
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