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| S.C. inmates work for public, private sectors |
| By charlestonbusiness.com- Liz Segrist |
| Published: 02/19/2014 |
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Four days a week, John works in the Sign Shop producing road signs for the state. The 25,000-square-foot facility in Columbia where he works looks like many other manufacturing operations around the state, and John looks like any other employee, but the shop sits on the grounds of the Broad River Correctional Institution where John has been an inmate for nearly 40 years. The state’s Corrections Department runs a program called Prison Industries that employs and trains inmates. Depending on the division, some inmates produce goods for the state and work for free, and others produce goods for both private and public sectors and earn wages. Those wages go to the victim’s family, the inmate’s family, room and board, taxes and an inmate savings account. Inmates employed through the Prison Industries programs build desks and chairs for the state’s school districts and city, county and state offices. They design and manufacture the signs that direct residents and visitors traveling the state’s roads and highways. Read More. |
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