ClydeR
09-26-2011, 11:47 AM
BAY MINETTE, Alabama --Non-violent offenders in Bay Minette now have a choice some would call simple: do time behind bars or work off the sentence in church.
Operation Restore Our Community or "ROC"...begins next week. The city judge will either let misdemenor offenders work off their sentences in jail and pay a fine or go to church every Sunday for a year.
More... (http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2011/sep/22/serve-time-jailor-church-ar-2450720/)
This program has the dual advantage of saving money on prison costs and teaching criminals how to be better people. Everybody wins.
The article doesn't say what happens is the criminal was already going to church every Sunday.
Operation Restore Our Community or "ROC"...begins next week. The city judge will either let misdemenor offenders work off their sentences in jail and pay a fine or go to church every Sunday for a year.
More... (http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2011/sep/22/serve-time-jailor-church-ar-2450720/)
This program has the dual advantage of saving money on prison costs and teaching criminals how to be better people. Everybody wins.
The article doesn't say what happens is the criminal was already going to church every Sunday.