Inmate day labor halted Work release center failed to keep records

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The Delaware Department of Correction has launched an investigation into a program that allows offenders to go out as day laborers from the Sussex Work Release Center after discovering the Georgetown center is unable to produce any documentation for the past 23 years.
Correction Commissioner Carl Danberg abruptly shut down the program a week ago after he learned the center has only three pieces of written documentation about inmates leaving for day labor since the program began in 1989. The paperwork that exists consists of one memo that explains the whereabouts of seven offenders who went to work at the Mountaire Farms poultry complex in Millsboro in 2010. In another case, the memo lists no employer, while the third lists that the day laborer will be “picked up by Chip.”
“I’m more than frustrated,” Danberg said. “We can’t operate like this. We need to know who’s going out of the facility on a daily basis.” Read full article.
http://www.delawareonline.com/articl...news|text|Home

[Josef]

This is almost incomprehensible. Wow.

[longnecker]

This is almost incomprehensible. Wow.

How would they have even known who was missing?

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Del. GOP Official Seeks Prison Program Probe

GEORGETOWN, Del. (AP)- A top Republican party official in Delaware wants a federal investigation into a county prisoner program that the state shut down last month.
John Sigler, chairman of the Republican State Committee, has asked U.S. Attorney Charles Oberly to investigate the Sussex County prisoner program for possible civil rights violations. The state correction commissioner is already looking into it.
The program permitted employers to use inmates as day laborers. But the state correction department shut it down last month because the Sussex Work Release Center could not produce paperwork about the inmates who provided the labor.
Sigler said the lack of records is troubling, and he wants to know whether the inmates were properly treated and where the money that they earned went.
http://www.wboc.com/story/18988422/d...-program-probe

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I know a guy that walked off work release in Sussex County, robbed a house in Ocean View, stole a car out of garage and drove it to DC. Then he took the bus to Florida and ended up strangling some other dude he met on a beach. He'd been in jail multiple times and I honestly have no idea how the Hell he ever got work release in the first place. This was just a few years ago.

[Josef]

I know a guy that walked off work release in Sussex County, robbed a house in Ocean View, stole a car out of garage and drove it to DC. Then he took the bus to Florida and ended up strangling some other dude he met on a beach. He'd been in jail multiple times and I honestly have no idea how the Hell he ever got work release in the first place. This was just a few years ago.

Hmmmm, so how do you know this guy?

[cracker]

Hmmmm, so how do you know this guy?

Lol, we went to the same highschool.

[Chase]

hardcore high

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DOVER, Del. (AP)- Republican state lawmakers are asking Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden to investigate whether an inmate work program violated state law.

Reps. Greg Lavelle and Deborah Hudson wrote to Biden on Thursday expressing concerns about a day labor program in Sussex County.

The letter was sent after the U.S. Attorney for Delaware declined a similar request by state GOP Chairman John Sigler for an investigation, saying Sigler should contact the FBI with any concerns.

Problems with the program surfaced earlier this year after two inmates were hired by the father-in-law of Democratic Rep. John Atkins. Following a subsequent Freedom of Information Act request by a newspaper reporter, DOC officials launched an internal investigation after discovering that there were virtually no records for the program's last 23 years of operations.
http://www.wboc.com/story/19066331/l...e-inmate-labor