Inmates should help with snow removal

With children having more than a week off from school due to over 24 inches of snow hitting the Maryland area, it's now time to clean the sidewalks, not just the streets. Tax-paying citizens are going to work, supporting their families, paying bills, along with shoveling their driveways to achieve their fiscal responsibilities. It would really be nice for the county inmates to get out of county jail for a few days and shovel the sidewalks so our children can make it to school safely and receive an education.

Taxpayers funded the county jail with a total of $70,598,400 in fiscal 2008, according to the Prince George's County, Maryland Department of Corrections Statistical Overview. I think it's about time the county inmates pay their dues to society after breaking laws in our county and get out there and shovel those sidewalks. It's the least they can do since taxpayers are obligated to support them.

Janet Bello, Capitol Heights Gazette.Net

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