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| Preparing food for prisons and convicts for the work force |
| By ocj.com- Joel Penhorwood |
| Published: 02/25/2016 |
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According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, over 2.2 million adults were incarcerated in the United States in 2013. The general public doesn’t largely concern themselves with the dealings of all of those cons while they’re put away, but just south of Columbus near Orient, a select group of professional meat processors works side-by-side with inmates on a daily to feed the prison system. Through the gates of the Pickaway Correctional Institution at the far end of the compound sits the Ohio Penal Institute’s Meat Processing Career Center — one of the largest of its kind. The sparkling clean state-of-the-art facility churned out 4 million pounds of product last year alone. And it’s run almost entirely by inmates. “We’re really proud of these guys. They take their jobs seriously. They want to learn,” said Tony Stout, a head staff member of the facility. “We have roughly 85 offenders between three processing zones. We have workers here with convictions of drug charges all the way up to mass murder. I tell people I work with 85 felons with knives every day.” Read More. |
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