The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Rend Lake have a number of projects that employees have not found the time to tackle until now.
Wednesday morning changed that as Warden Wendy Roal of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ United States Penitentiary in Marion sat next to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District Commander Col. Christopher Hall with a purpose in mind.
The two signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the two entities that will help both Rend Lake and the federal prison. Hall said inmates from the minimum security prison camp would help the Corps by performing a backlog of maintenance issues and public works projects that would not be completed without the help of the inmates. full story
