Article: Union fears prisoners coulddrink to change in fruit juice

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Corrections might not be handing its inmates cocktails during meal time, but the state's largest employee union fears the department's decision to switch to 100 percent juice could lead to drunken inmates.

Earlier this month, prison officials decided to reverse a decision they made in 2000 and swapped their 30 percent juice for a 100 percent variety. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union says inmates could sneak the juice into their cells and ferment it into alcoholic hooch.

"The reason you don't sell juice is because it's fermentable," said Buddy Maupin, the union's regional director for Southern Illinois.

Maupin ...

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