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Inmate labor used around Abilene, Taylor County

If Antonio Garcia sat in his Taylor County Jail cell all day, he would write letters and sketch, and hed spend hours thinking about his wife and three children that he sees just twice a week.Instead, the 27-year-old inmate steps out from behind the jails fences, breathes fresh air, and wields shovels, rakes and weed-eaters 10 hours a day, four days a week.