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No prison time for former Project Graduation president

There’ll be no prison time for a woman who admitted stealing the Project Graduation fund at Joplin High School

44-year-old Melanie Patterson, at one time that group’s president, pleaded guilty to stealing.

She’ll have to serve five years probation that included special conditions.

She won’t be allowed to possess or use alcohol, enter a business where alcohol is sold for consumption on-site or use controlled substances unless they’re physician-prescribed

Patterson also will have to pay a total of $1,500 in restitutions.

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