Town Tempers Its Woodshed Law for Delinquent Parents
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DERMOTT, Ark. — Delinquent parents here no longer face humiliation in a stockade, but those who don’t keep their kids in line can still draw hefty fines and time in jail.
The City Council on Monday revised a 2-week-old ordinance, leaving a provision that parents of wayward youngsters could be sentenced to up to 30 days in jail, but deleting the part that said two of those days could be spent on public display in a stockade.
The law didn’t define a stockade. The city doesn’t have one and the council allocated no money to build one when it passed the ordinance.
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