I have sent the follow email to Rep. Dale Sturtz. Re: SUPPORT - House Bill 1189 Dear Representative Sturtz: Though we are not residents of Indiana, we would like to commend you on the introduction of HB 1189. In California, many county inmate crews and some state prison crews are able to work at projects that significantly assist our local communities. Among the inmate crew assignments is the cleaning of local community cemeteries which have no other means of being maintained. In Sacramento, the Old City Cemetery has been wonderfully restored through the use of inmate crews from the Sacramento County Sheriff's office. Without the inmate labor, this cemetery would have remained an eyesore and insult to the people of California. We believe HB 1189 has the potential to allow such services to the many historic cemeteries in Indiana which the Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project members presently struggle to care for. We would encourage you to amend the language of HB 1189 to specifically allow inmate crews to work on historic cemetery clean up and, possibly, repairs. Respectfully, Sue Silver, President El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission 2551 Deer Trail Lane Cameron Park, CA 95682 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Mauk" <loismauk@home.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:33 PM Subject: [INPCRP] House Bill 1189 > I've been searching through the legislation introduced this week in the > current session of the Indiana General Assembly for something addressing our > concerns about the portability of pioneer cemeteries. Haven't found > anything yet, but the following bill caught my eye: > > House Bill 1189 > > Introduced by Representative Sturtz > > Status: 1/10/2002 -- First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary > > SUMMARY: > > County inmate work crews. Allows a county sheriff to establish an inmate > work program. Specifies inmate eligibility requirements and requires inmates > to dress in distinctive county jail uniforms while performing work on crews. > Allows a sheriff to require a crew to perform any work the sheriff > determines to be appropriate and of benefit to the community except for > public work (as defined in the public works projects law). > ==================================== > > See http://www.state.in.us/serv/lsa_billinfo for additional info on HB 1189. > > We've had GREAT success with the use of inmate labor crews provided to us by > Clark Co. Sheriff Mike Becher. Perhaps a statute such as this is what is > needed to encourage other Sheriffs to follow suite. > > This bill is now before the House Judiciary Committee. The members of that > committee are: > > Chair: Representative Sturtz > Vice Chair: Representative Tincher > Members: Bardon; C. Brown; Cochran; Dvorak; Frenz; Kuzman. Foley, R.M.M.; > Dumezich; Munson; Steele; Torr; Ulmer. > > in case you want to contact any of them to express your support for this > bill. See http://www.IN.gov/legislative/legislators/ for contact > information. > > Lois > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > If we cannot respect the dead, how can we respect the living? > >