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Polk Sheriff removes basketball from jail, donates equipment to churches
'I was tired of people driving by the jail and it looking like we were holding recreation for a bunch of criminals,' Sheriff Grady Judd said
By Anika Myers Palm, Orlando Sentinel
10:09 a.m. EST, December 23, 2010 Inmates at Polk County jails who kept fit by playing basketball will have to do something else for exercise now. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd announced today that the county has almost completed the process of removing basketball paraphernalia from its jails. Basketball goals, posts and nets from the Central and South County jails will be donated to churches, according to the Sheriff's Office. "I was tired of people driving by the jail and it looking like we were holding recreation for a bunch of criminals," Judd said. Although state law requires jails to provide inmates with opportunities to exercise, Judd said he didn't see any reason why basketball had to be part of the exercise.
10:09 a.m. EST, December 23, 2010 Inmates at Polk County jails who kept fit by playing basketball will have to do something else for exercise now. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd announced today that the county has almost completed the process of removing basketball paraphernalia from its jails. Basketball goals, posts and nets from the Central and South County jails will be donated to churches, according to the Sheriff's Office. "I was tired of people driving by the jail and it looking like we were holding recreation for a bunch of criminals," Judd said. Although state law requires jails to provide inmates with opportunities to exercise, Judd said he didn't see any reason why basketball had to be part of the exercise.
Get the day's top stories in your inbox. Click here to sign up for the Midday Update newsletter "They can jog, they can do push-ups or sit-ups, they can do jumping jacks, they can do stretching routines," he said. "But they won't play basketball." A set of posts removed from the jail today will go to the Turning Point Worship Center in Bartow. About eight other churches in the county will receive other goals and posts during the next week or two, Judd said. Removing the basketball posts is part of Judd's goal to make the jails less comfortable for inmates. "I think people should come to jail for an experience — and that experience should be 'I don't want to come back,'" he said.
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