taken off the streets doing useful works

[navi tasan]

1) They were taken off the streets doing useful work and put behind desks without anything to do.

Is this sentence correct?

I was wondering if 'doing useful work' and 'without anything to do' were 'dangling'. I don't think they are.

 

[emsr2d2]

1) They were taken off the streets where they were doing useful work and put behind desks without anything to do.

Is this sentence correct?

I was wondering if 'doing useful work' and 'without anything to do' were 'dangling'. I don't think they are.

See above. The "without anything to do" is OK as it is but the first clause needed clarification. I'd probably change the end to "with nothing to do" but yours isn't wrong.