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| Prison jobs have multiple benefits |
| By theolympian.com - John Dodge |
| Published: 04/15/2013 |
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WASHINGTON - I went to prison Thursday. Fortunately my stay at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center near Aberdeen was short-lived, just long enough to gain an appreciation for an impressive program within the state Department of Corrections. It’s called Correctional Industries, a hybrid business enterprise that operates 22 businesses centers at 12 corrections centers and prisons, employing some 240 civilians and 1,500 inmates, which represents about 10 percent of the state’s prison population. I saw about 200 of those inmates in action Thursday in the metal, furniture and upholstery shop at Stafford Creek. The workplace in the heart of the prison grounds includes a new, 50,000 square-foot wood shop that replaces the one that operated at McNeil Island until the state prison there shut down two years ago. Read More. |
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