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| Nevada Inmate Industry Receives Accreditation |
| By Reno Gazette-Journal |
| Published: 03/20/2003 |
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The American Correctional Association has accredited Silver State Industries, operated by inmates of the Nevada Department of Corrections. The program met an extensive set of standards ranging from accounting practices to production and raw material control, tool and hazardous material control, said Howard Skolnik, head of the prison industries program. 'This is the first unit of the department to be accredited by that national association,' Skolnik said. Seventy-four standards specific to the operation of correctional industries had an initial compliance rate of more than 97 percent, he said. Nevada joins Colorado, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York, Ohio and a county in Virginia as the only correctional industries accredited in the United States. The accreditation program is a professional peer review process based on standards that have evolved since the founding of the Commission on Accreditation in 1870, said commission chairman David Thomas. The standards were developed by national leaders from the field of corrections, law, architecture, health care and other groups interested in sound correctional management, he said. |
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