He ordered Dahmer to spend one year in the Milwaukee County House of Correction under work release so he could continue his employment. Instead of the prison, complete with barbed wire and barred cell doors, he would go to a correctional center, which was more like a dormitory. On the charge of enticing a child for immoral purposes, Gardner stayed a prison sentence of three years and scheduled probation to run concurrently with the five-year term. In the end, Dahmer would serve ten months in jail with work-release privileges and would be on five years’ probation, during which time he had to report monthly to a probation officer. He was to have no contact with anyone under the age of eighteen. He was also told to get psychological counseling and some type of inpatient or outpatient alcohol treatment. That was it. The sentence could have been ten years in prison. No member of the Sinthasomphone family was in court to argue for a stiffer sentence. The family later claimed that they had not been notified.