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August 16, 2005
Alaska: State Offers Prison Space, Labor to Private Sector
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State offers prison space, labor to private sector
by Angela Unruh - Monday, August 15, 2005
Anchorage, Alaska - A year after closing down the auto shop at the Palmer Correctional Facility, the Department of Corrections is once again looking for private sector partners to operate prison industries in Palmer, Fairbanks and Kenai.
Corrections shut down the auto shop at the Palmer prison in April 2004 after nearly two decades. Now, the state hopes to use the shop space for another industry.
Commissioner Marc Antrim says the goal is to provide inmates with a place to work and get job training. The attraction for the private sector is that inmate wages is as low as 85 cents an hour.
Posted by lois at August 16, 2005 12:32 PM