By ALLISON BOURG The (Annapolis) Capital GLEN BURNIE, Md. (AP) - Joe Myers is matter-of-fact when explaining what brought him to the Ordnance Road Correctional Center on a recent Friday night. "I had gotten a DUI a week after my 21st birthday in Ocean City, then had a second one here (in Anne Arundel County) when I was visiting my mom," the 22-year-old Eastern Shore resident said. "I violated my probation, so I landed here." He was driving with a 0.14-percent blood-alcohol level when police officers stopped him. District Court Judge Thomas Pryal sent him to jail, but ruled that he could serve the time on the weekends. It's a sentencing option popular in Anne Arundel, where about 100 men and women, sometimes more, show up at the county jail in Glen Burnie every weekend to pay their debt to society in 48-hour blocks. The county...
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