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| Inmate Workforce Program generates interest across northwest Kansas |
| By hayspost.com- Lisa Herman |
| Published: 07/02/2018 |
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Every year, in the state of Kansas, more than 5,000 offenders are admitted and released from incarceration from correctional facilities. To reduce recidivism (returns to prison) and facilitate reentry and transition to the community at release, the Kansas Department of Corrections offers a variety of programs, and works to prepare inmates for, and provide access to, work release and prison-and-non-prison-based private industry employment when it is safe for the community and the inmate has a need for such a program. Presently, across the state of Kansas, there are several non-prison-based workforce programs which are serving to reduce the likeliness of recidivism by allowing offenders the opportunity to develop and improve upon their job and life skills, and become tax-paying, law-abiding citizens. Since its inception last fall, an Inmate Workforce Program agreement, entered into by the Norton Correctional Facility (NCF), a correctional facility of the Kansas Department of Corrections, and Husky Hogs, LLC, a private sector business located in Long Island, Kan. (Phillips County), has been met with a mixed array of opinions from members of the surrounding communities. The program has generated a plethora of interest – and, likewise, has sparked concern – as those unfamiliar with inmate employment have searched for answers to their most sought-after questions. The following is an investigative journalism piece which provides an in-depth look at the creation of this program in northwest Kansas and the ways in which offenders are prepared for and selected for participation, details on the procedures and policies in place to ensure safety and security, details on work duty performance based on eyewitness account, and feedback concerning the impact the program is having on those civilian employees working alongside offenders. Read More. |
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