Inmate Firefighters
Prison officials agreed to correct a mistake related to good-conduct credit rules that had mistakenly extended sentences
State correctional officials said that minimum-security inmate Edgar Benitez, 25, was missing from his assigned housing at Growlersburg Conservation Camp
A flaw in the new good-conduct credit program caused some inmates’ sentences to be lengthened rather than cut short
The department will continue to search for ways to increase the pool of potential firefighters
Corrections department: “All it does is enlarge the pool of inmates we look at.... We still are not going to put an inmate in camp that has a violent attitude.”
All were released from the hospital Saturday; 3 wildland firefighters were also hurt in Idaho
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