Yakima will have fewer graffiti installations to look at when COVID-19 restrictions are over, with the city planning to have individuals in the city jail help to remove graffiti. | Unsplash
Yakima will have fewer graffiti installations to look at when COVID-19 restrictions are over, with the city planning to have individuals in the city jail help to remove graffiti. | Unsplash
Yakima will have fewer graffiti installations to look at when COVID-19 restrictions are over, with the city planning to have individuals in the city jail help to remove graffiti, the Yakima Herald-Republic reported on Aug. 30.
This isn’t a new concept. Corrections Commander Maritza Davis told the paper. The jail had a program to tackle graffiti in 2008.
This time around, Davis says that there are more than a dozen of her corrections staff members who are working on the project, and the plan is to bring inmates who qualify for the inmate worker program to begin working on graffiti abatement when coronavirus pandemic restrictions are lifted.
Participating inmates don’t receive money for their work, but they may get other perks, like cable TV, access to the jail kitchen, opportunities to spend more time outside and even good time to reduce their jail sentence by up to one third, Yakima Herald-Republic reported.
Eligible inmates have been sentenced for misdemeanor charges, without holds from other agencies, no history of assaulting officers, or escape attempts. Inmates in the work program are supervised and work no longer than 10 hours a day.
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