WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14,1978, PAGE 9 risoners go to work Beginning July. 1, prison- ers at the MWi4tby )jail wilI be taking pary ' in, 'Lommunity work projégts .td earn time off their . eâterces. The program, announced recently -by Correctional Services Minister Frank Drea, will give prisoners an. opportunity to work off up to one-third of their time in jail doing somnethinguseful in the community. - According to Wjbif.by Jail Superintendent F-rank Gi, the program is voluntary, but if the prisoners do flot take part in it, they will have to serve their fuit terms in jail. Participants in the pro- gram will be judged on their conduct, attitude and wiiiingness to work, hie said. ThS old system, which will remain ini operation, alio.ws any prisoner who enters the jail an automatic 25 per cent reduction 'in his sentence, and three days- a- month off for good behavior. Mr. Gi says the Whitby Jail already has.,18,,to 20 inmates workingron coin- munity projects in Whitby, Ajax andý Pickering, and they are also doing work for the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority. the work includes clearing brush, cieaning up beaches, and painting. One group cleaned Up the Brooklin fair gonsprior to the Victoria Day firew orks display. An interested citizen who saw a number-of the prison- ,rs At work'in Heydenshore Park, cailed the Free Press recently, and expressed bis praise for the program and said they were doing'a good job for the community. Mr. gi said there is no confiict with muni.cipal workers in the communities where the prisoners are working, because "the in- mates -perform only work that would not orcould not be done by the municipality for lack of money or some other reason." There is no danger to the community in this program, hesaid, because prisoners who have been copvicted of cimes of violent nature, sex cimes or serious drug charges are not permitted to take part. Those taking part in the program are basically those serving sentences of up to one year, said Mr. Gi. mates have greatly improv- ed, and hopes that the pro- grami can be expanded to serve senior citizens as wel as municipalities. GiSl receives honors degree Carol-Atpe CGondwin, of Whîîby r4cif an Honors Ba*ih*o of Arts Degree froiiWifiid Latu-ier Univer- sity. at the university's spring cdnnvdcatiDfl at Kitchener. Miss (3oodwln was also on the. Dean's Honor Roll of the' University. rn More Great Gifts For Dad!