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NCJ Number: 182018 Find in a Library
Title: Building Trade: Inmates Build Houses for the Elderly
Journal: CTM - Corrections Technology & Management  Volume:4  Issue:2  Dated:March/April 2000  Pages:36-38
Author(s): John W. Hoffmann
Date Published: March 2000
Annotation: This article describes a South Dakota program that employs inmates in building houses for the elderly and disabled.
Abstract: Since 1996 Springfield, South Dakota prison inmates have been building 768-square-foot homes for the elderly and disabled. The houses are trucked out of the prison and installed mostly in small rural towns. Inmates at another facility make the cabinets installed in the houses. By mid-1999 the State had produced 438 homes, which came without carpeting or appliances. The most common buyers were elderly farm couples who could no longer take care of their farms, but did not want to move to the city. Prison labor also wired for computers schools throughout the State. Both programs employed local contractors to do jobs that prisoners could not do, e.g., plumbing and electrical work. There were some complaints that the prison labor forces were taking work from local private contractors. But corrections spokesmen were able to demonstrate that the inmates had accomplished projects that would simply never have been done in the outside economy. In addition, the inmates provided the building trades industry with a much-needed and well-trained workforce.
Main Term(s): Corrections
Index Term(s): Correctional industries; Correctional reform; Ex-offender employment; Inmate Programs; Inmate run industries; Offender participation programs; Private sector-government cooperation; South Dakota; Vocational training
Publisher: http://www.ctmmag.com 
Page Count: 3
Format: Article
Type: Report (Study/Research)
Language: English
Country: United States of America
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