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| Goal: Make prison products profitable |
| By Seacoast Online |
| Published: 09/12/2007 |
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MAINE - Maine (AP) — With 600 lines of products created by Maine inmates, the state prison industries program sells $1 million worth of merchandise a year. But at the same time, the state spends $1.5 million to subsidize it, a lawmaker familiar with the program says. "It's a great program — but not on the backs of the taxpayers," Rep. Stanley Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick, who ran the program for a while in the 1990s, said Tuesday. Gerzofsky is also House chairman of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, which began a detailed review of the prison industries program that will include a look at profitable industries programs in other states and see which might work in Maine. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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