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NY work-release inmates want jobs for Christmas

Warden: “Nothing is more rehabilitative than meaningful employment’

By Jim Runkle
The Express

LOCK HAVEN — According to Warden Jackie Motter, all some local inmates housed at the Clinton County Correctional Facility want for Christmas - aside from an early release — is a job.

Motter used the occasion of Wednesday’s meeting of the county prison board to make a plea to local businesses and industries, on behalf of work-release eligible inmates.

On Wednesday, eight men and three women incarcerated at the facility were actively employed, while 35 other work-eligible prisoners remain idle, she said.

“Nothing is more rehabilitative than meaningful employment,” she said.

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