![]() She is now helping answer a barrage of calls in the jail for information about inmates. ![]() In February, amidst more cutbacks and layoffs, the sheriff’s office ventured into a more unique assignment for a female trusty. They follow the rules or they are “fired,” said Sgt. Inmates who work outside the facility are non-violent offenders with no history of discipline problems. The sheriff said on some roadways, inmates have collected as many as 20 bags per mile with Ohio 129 being one of the most littered. Litter gathering averages for the operation are about seven bags per mile with a average total of about one ton of garbage a month, according to sheriff’s office calculations. The county’s solid waste district helps underwrite Gipson’s salary for the litter eradication operation, according to Anne Fiehrer-Flaig, district coordinator. Corrections officers and staff on site monitor inmate workers inside the jail facility and outside a part time officer, at a rate of about $14 an hour, serves as law care supervisor.Ī full time corrections officer, Mike Gipson, is assigned to supervise inmates who work daily on township roads picking up litter tossed out of car windows. The cost to the department is for supervision only, Jones said. It gets awful boring just sitting around,” Jones said. Jones said if an inmate wants to lie in a cell bed all day, “I can’t make him work.” From 2008 to 2010, Butler County Jail inmates, who are designated trusties, worked an average of 189,553 hours for an average savings of $1,276,898 based on minimum wage, according to Jones.
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