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| Inmates to help slaughter their own beef |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/15/2004 |
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Inmates will learn to be butchers, providing their peers with meat at mealtime and themselves with marketable skills after their release. Inmates at the Pickaway Correctional Institution in Ohio will help slaughter cows and pigs to provide more than 3.4 million pounds of beef and pork to feed 44,000 prisoners in 32 institutions statewide. About 120 minimum- and medium-security inmates will be trained, under strict supervision and constant video surveillance, in meat-cutting - a trade they can use when they get out of prison, state prisons director Reginald Wilkinson said. They'll work with 22 correctional staff members as butchers in a new $10.6 million, 37,000-square foot processing plant that - when fully operational in two years - is expected to save Ohio taxpayers $2 million annually by reducing reliance on outside meat purchases. The plant's equipment will get a test run in a few weeks and begin operations in December. |
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