MCCOOK, Neb. — For nearly 25 years, prisoners like Mitch Stone moved furniture, mowed lawns and renovated buildings at no cost to residents of this small city in western Nebraska.
Stone, 50, spent two years at a local Work Ethic Camp, where he maintained a county fairground for $3.78 a day while serving time after a DUI conviction. “The camp helped me out a lot,” said Stone, who is now a full-time employee at the same facility where he worked as an inmate.
