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| Inmates, states profit from work skills program |
| By theadvocate.com - Michelle Millhollen |
| Published: 10/29/2012 |
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With less than 120 days left in her gun charge sentence, Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women inmate Tanya Jordan whiles away the time hemming sheets in the prison’s garment factory. “I didn’t even know how to thread a needle. Now I’m doing three threads in one needle,” Jordan, 41, said of the skills she learned. At LCIW and the nearby Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, inmates stitch together prison jumpsuits and linens, pick pecans and tend to cattle. At state prisons across the state, inmates grow crops and make license plates, construct bunk beds, sell snacks and create mattresses. With money scarce in state government, Gov. Bobby Jindal recently closed state prisons in DeQuincy, Keithville and Pineville. He said the facilities cost too much to operate. Read More. |
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