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| Wyoming inmates take pride in giving back to community |
| By kansas.com- Iain Woessner |
| Published: 05/24/2017 |
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"The real product is the inmate." Those are WY Brand Site Manager Paul Metevier's words, encapsulating in a sense the overall mission of the Wyoming State Penitentiary: a place where men and women go into as criminals and come out as neighbors. The process by which that is accomplished might be found amidst the quiet buzzing hum of sewing machines, manned by orange-clad inmates dutifully dedicated to the task of sewing, stitching and cutting cloth. They are all workers at the facility's garment shop, one of two sizable industrial workshops that serve as the bulk of the Pen's prison industries program. "We're really focusing on the soft skills, the hard skills, teaching them how to come to work, how to act in a work environment, how to act professionally with others, as well as some of the hard skills like working the equipment, the machinery," Metevier said. "Give them something to go out with." Read More. |
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