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The Courier-Journal: When Scott Ray Hays pleaded guilty to a drug charge two weeks ago, Laurel County, Ky., District Judge Michael Caperton gave him three choices:

Go to jail for 10 days. Go to rehab. Or go to church or another house of worship for 10 services.

Hays chose church.

Legal experts said alternative sentencing is popular across the country -- ordering vandals to repaint a graffiti-covered wall, for example. But they said they didn't know of any other judges who give the option of attending worship.

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