WENTWORTH – Inmates are about to clean up Rockingham County.
On Monday, Gov. Pat McCrory signed into law House Bill 1133, which allows the use of landfill funds to pay for a prisoner work program to clean up litter.
Craig Travis, the vice chairman of the Rockingham County Board of Commissioners, said for two years he wanted this program but the county couldn’t find funding.
“It just so happened one night I was laying there and I was thinking if they are picking up litter and litter is concerning trash then why can’t we use the landfill fund for it?” Travis said.
