{"id":659,"date":"2011-10-24T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/smalltownamerica\/?p=659"},"modified":"2011-10-24T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T19:04:17","slug":"youthful-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/smalltownamerica\/2011\/10\/youthful-wisdom.html","title":{"rendered":"Youthful Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Overmyer is the youngest sheriff in the state of Ohio.\u00a0 He is only 38 years old, but that doesn’t mean that he lacks motivation or wisdom.\u00a0 When he took office he was told to “trim” the budget.\u00a0 He found a creative way\u00a0to do just that.\u00a0 In 2009, the food budget for the Sandusky County Jail was $120,000.\u00a0 This year it was $88,000.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The inmates used to get pancakes, sweetened\u00a0cereal, and sometimes breakfast meat.\u00a0 They also had\u00a0hot\u00a0 lunches and dinners with all kinds of meats and trimmings.\u00a0Now they get cereal for breakfast, a sack lunch for lunch and a good hot meal for dinner,\u00a0 but no red meat.\u00a0 Of course the inmates were not thrilled with this change, but Sheriff Overmyer tells them, “This is not a party and this is not a hotel.”<\/p>\n

Sheriff Overmyer is a tax payer’s hero.\u00a0 It all began with a simple idea and has blossomed into a program that has been a real money saver.\u00a0 Many other counties and states are looking to pattern a program like this.\u00a0 The idea was to plant a garden near the jail and have the low level offenders work the garden.<\/p>\n

Overmyer said the garden is aimed at partly rehabilitation and partly to save money. “It helps the jail, the inmates, and the taxpayers.\u00a0 It’is a win-win operation.”<\/p>\n

The first garden was planted in the spring of 2009 and the sheriff actually helped plant the seed.\u00a0 Since then it has grown to a 1.5 acre plot. Many inmates come in with the attitude that we owe it to them to provide what they need, including food, and we do. But now they have to contibute to their own food supply.<\/p>\n

More about the “jail garden” \u00a0tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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