at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, rhett manning had recently pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter for hitting a man with his car and received a five-year sentence. manning s lawyer then petitioned the judge to give him status under the first offender act, a georgia law that allows some first-time felons to have their convictions purged from their record after they complete their sentences. now manning has returned from court where a judge has given him his answer. got some good news, bad news, no news? pretty good news and just got to figure the rest of it out. okay, that s good, that s good. best news, best news. basically the judge granted me the first offender s. that means when i ve completed the sentence i won t be considered a convicted felon. not having a felony on my record is very important to me because i have a job that requires no
chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, this stay in jail is not their first. chief deputy roy harris says that after 35 years as a law enforcement officer, the high rate of recidivism among inmates has helped change his philosophy about corrections. one of the things that bothers me the most is last year 70% of our inmates had prior felony arrests and had been in this facility. the year before it was 878%. that is way too many. the same people keep coming back over and over. that shows us something is not working. i think as a society we really need to take a hard look at that. yes, many of them need to be locked up. but the bulk of our people here made dumb choices. a remedy for that, we run 12 programs at this facility which are geared to help inmates do better when they get out, to help them get off drugs, to get jobs.
on any given day there are around 1,500 inmates at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia. and the jail relies on a select group of them to help the facility running. nonviolent inmates with good behavior can become trustees who work in a variety of roles. including barbers, cooks, and janitors. your days go a lot quicker. you get up so early, it makes you tired at the end of the day. keeps you out of the cell. keeps you from being locked up all day like other guys and stuff. that s the only thing i like about it. while the trustees say they like the work, not all of the jobs are pleasant. you don t look happy. not happy cleaning up somebody else s urine and feces. justin padilla and edward abernathy are here to clean
on any given day there are around 1,500 inmates at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia. and the jail relies on a select group of them to help the facility running. nonviolent inmates with good behavior can become trustees who work in a variety of roles. including barbers, cooks and janitors. your days go a lot quicker. you get up so early, it makes you tired at the end of the day. keeps you out of the cell. keeps you from being locked up all day like other guys and stuff. that s the only thing i like about it. while they say they like the work, not all of the jobs are pleasant. you don t look happy.
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