Background

TxDOT has developed agreements that can be used by districts to perform specified maintenance work using inmate or adult probationer labor. These agreements can be executed with the local jurisdictions of the county commissioner’s court, sheriff's department, Texas Department of Criminal Justice or the local
Community Supervision and Corrections Department
, as appropriate.
These agreements should be considered as a supplement to the Routine Maintenance Contracts (RMC) and State Use Program and should not displace any work normally performed by those methods.
Some examples of maintenance work that may be suitable for inmate/probationer labor are:
  • removal of litter, graffiti and debris
  • brush clearing
  • trimming vegetation
  • planting trees and wild flowers and performing other landscape maintenance activities
  • cleaning signs and delineators
  • painting picnic tables, buildings, curbs, crosswalks, litter barrels, guardrail and sign posts
  • street-sweeping and silt removal from curb and gutter sections.