Opinion ID: 3054874
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Work-Release Probation

Text: Defendant Alvarado worked with Plaintiff Flournoy for over three weeks, but was unable to find a job for him. On December 29, 2009, Defendant Alvarado 3 Case: 12-15230 Date Filed: 08/13/2013 Page: 4 of 14 informed Defendant Duffie, the probation officer, and Defendant Gary Knight, the director of the work release program, that Plaintiff Flournoy was unable or unwilling to maintain employment as required by the work release program. Duffie asked Alvarado to put her views in a letter to him, which Alvarado did on the same day. In her letter, Alvarado stated that Plaintiff Flournoy “has been found to be unemployable.” The letter further indicated that Flournoy “has disabilities that make it difficult for him to seek full-time employment” and that Flournoy “states that it is difficult for him to work.” On December 30, 2009, Defendant Probation Officer Duffie prepared a delinquency report to the state court judge based on Flournoy’s failure to comply with the conditions, rules, and regulations of the work release program. Duffie’s delinquency report indicated that Alvarado had “deemed . . . Flournoy unemployable,” that Flournoy had told Alvarado that “due to his medical conditions . . . it is to[o] difficult for him to work,” but that “Flournoy understands that he must work at a place of employment to be eligible for [the work release program] and signed an intake document stating that he must work.” Duffie recommended that Flournoy be returned to the Houston County Jail until his revocation hearing.