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Article: Inmates Tame the Grass Along Braddock Road; Experiment Saves Money, Clears Motorists' View
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 9, 2007
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Hugo Lainez remembered driving along Braddock Road in Fairfax
County about once a week.
"It was bad. The grass was pretty bad," he said one day last
month, looking out onto the road.
Before his release from the Fairfax Adult Detention Center
recently, Lainez, 32, from the Herndon area, helped cut the grass
and maintain the area, and he made his observations while a member
of the inmate work crew that has been doing that job.
"It makes me feel good. You're doing something for the
community," Lainez said at the time. He has since finished serving
his time for driving while intoxicated.
Lainez and other members of the center's Community Labor Force
have been working along this gently ...