Did New Jersey Inmates Work with Asbestos?
Last December, the city of Paterson, N.J. had to stop work on a renovation project after potentially dangerous asbestos was detected on the site. In the fall of 2012, a team that included city public works employees and a group of county inmates began working on a municipal building in Paterson, according to this article in the PatersonPress.com. The inmates were participants in a community