"We're probably going to re-evaluate it," said Jack Ford, spokesman for the Utah Department of Corrections.
About 30 inmates from the Draper and Gunnison prisons are used to pick up litter along highways. They typically are close to parole and are considered minimum-security prisoners with good conduct. Inmates even earn money.
"It's kind of a positive reward system," Ford said.
But the program stopped when two inmates attempted to escape from a road crew last week and two were found to be intoxicated, he said.
"We are going to look at it and see if there's a better way to be able to continue to support the Department of Transportation and help the inmates before they leave, and at the same time make it a more secure thing," Ford said.
