Static From Lawmakers Cancels Jail’s Cable TV
Bad ratings from the Monroe County Legislature have forced the cancellation of a plan to install cable television in the county jail, officials said Saturday.
County Sheriff Andrew Meloni had proposed providing cable service to about 35 television sets at the jail, with the initial installation cost of about $25,000 to be picked up by inmates through sales at the jail commissary.
But Meloni withdrew the idea after county legislators told him their constituents had given it a bad reception, with many saying that letting the inmates watch cable television would amount to coddling them.
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