WISE — Participants in a Wise County work release program have a new option to work off their sentences — classroom work. Wise County Commonwealth’s Attorney Chuck Slemp and Regional Adult and Career Education Program — RACE 1 — manager Rebecca Scott have announced a new partnership for alternative sentencing in the county court system. Wise Works already allows non-violent misdemeanor and felony offenders to do community service in place of jail or prison time, Slemp said that, at any one time, 25 to 35 offenders are working on road or waterway cleanup or at the county animal shelter.