– Photo by Donald Norton

By William Tauro

Prisoners from the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Department are scraping off the old flaking paint and preparing to give City Hall a new look. Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian, in conjunction with Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone, has recently implemented a program that helps cash strapped cities with prisoner maintenance/repair projects, while helping the prisoners to reintroduce themselves into society at the same time.