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| Arizona Company Staffs Framing Plant with Local Inmates |
| By builderonline.com- Kathleen Brown |
| Published: 02/02/2018 |
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An Arizona-based framing company has unlocked an unconventional solution to one of the construction industry’s biggest pain points. A few years ago, leaders at Erickson Companies, a provider of construction services in Arizona, Northern California, and the greater Reno, Nev. market, put their heads together to find new ways to source labor in a tight market. The company sells panelized framing systems that help residential builders save time, labor, and money, and needed additional skilled labor to continue to meet customer demand. With help from Connie Wilhem, president of the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona, they located an unusual source of labor to help build panels in the company’s Chandler, Ariz.-based plant: inmates from an Arizona state prison. Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI) provides private businesses with flexible inmate work forces and sells products made by Arizona inmates. Erickson executives saw an opportunity for a mutually beneficial partnership with ACI, supplying one of its plants with workers while giving inmates marketable skills for their job search upon release. Read More. |
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