Tuesday, April 15, 2008
WAITING FOR THE AUDIT TO COME
Rumor has it that the Final Audit of the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office will reveal that Three Hundred Eighty Thousand ($380,000) was embezzled.
Imagine if this money had been combined with the money that was either spent on items that were of no benefit to either the prisoners or the taxpayers or of questionable value and instead was used for education, counseling, and job training. Many of the inmates could have been reintegrated into society as productive members rather than as potential repeat offenders. As David Crary of The Associated Press writes "Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year, according to a study commissioned by four groups advocating more government action to bolster marriages."
Maybe it is time to take a new approach regarding determining what expenditures benefit the prisoners and society as well as who makes that determination. Certainly, "the old way" is not working in Dorchester County.
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