THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, November 10, 1995 TAG: 9511100484
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
DATELINE: MAPLE LENGTH: Short : 29 lines
Inmates from Currituck Correctional Center worked 2,811 hours in September and 2,019 hours in August, performing jobs from clearing brush to improving drainage to picking up trash, Superintendent Ernest Sutton said Thursday.
``Gov. Hunt wants inmates put to work,'' Sutton said from his 96-bed facility in Maple. ``We continue to put them to work in jobs that help the state - like these road squads.''
Wearing brown jumpsuits and orange vests with ``INMATE'' stencilled on the back, the 36 medium-security inmate workers from Currituck Correctional Center are supervised by two armed guards. The prisoners earn 70 cents per day, plus gain time off their sentences for working. Typically, they work from five to six hours each day, five days a week.
Road squads perform tasks in Camden, Currituck, Dare and Pasquotank counties.
Other inmates work in the prisons, cooking in the kitchen, doing laundry, making beds, cleaning cells, and manufacturing license plates, highway signs and street signs. by CNB