County commissioners are asking that the state not close either of Franklin County’s prisons because of the benefits having the facilities provides to the county.
The state is planning to close the Bay City Work Camp in Apalachicola is expected to close after work is complete on a new facility at the state prison in Carrabelle.
County commissioner Smokey Parrish said the prisons not only provide the county with a lot of jobs but also with inmate labor.
Commissioner Parrish said that the prison jobs are very important because the county doesn’t have any manufacturing and without the inmate labor he doubts the county could afford many of the services it provides now.
Commissioner Bevin Putnal estimated that state prisoners do hundreds of thousand of dollars of labor in the county every year.
The board agreed to write a letter in defense of the prisons and send it to the governor, the Department of Corrections and our legislative delegation.
The board felt the letter should be sent before the legislature gets too deep in its budget negotiations.
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