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Jail Industries
Programs
Carl Barker
President - JIA Association
11093 S.W. Lewis Memorial Highway
Bowling Green, VA 22427
[email protected]
and
Rod Miller
National Jail Wok and Industry
Center
925 Johnson Drive
Gettysburg, PA 17325
[email protected]
www.jailwork.com
Next Monday….
www.jailwork.com
National Jail Work
and Industries
Center
A Quick Assignment…
• Average daily population of our jail
• % of inmates working 30+ hours/week
• What is keeping you from working more
inmates (list all you can think of)
• Agency name, state
• OPTIONAL, Name, email address
Stakeholders
• Who has a “stake” in jail inmate labor?
BUSINESS COMMUNITY
Chamber of Commerce
Customers
Suppliers
Business Operators
ORGANIZED LABOR
Public Sector
Private Sector
EMPLOYMENT, WORKFORCE, ECONOMY
Economic Development
Employment, Job Service
Small Business Admin.
EDUCATION
Vocational/Technical
Higher Education
Public Schools
NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Sheltered Workshops
United Way
Non-Profit Services
GOVERNMENT
County Commissioners
County Administrator
Municipal Officials
State Legislators
Finance, Procurement
Facilities, Operations
State Correctional Industries
State Jail Inspector
Community Group
Cooperative Extension
Human Services
Conservation Corps
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Sheriff
Judges/Courts
Attorneys, BAR Association
CJ Coordinating Groups
Law Enforcement
Probation/Parole
• OTHER
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Religious Community
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Victim Advocates
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Taxpayer Advocates
JAIL/ CORRECTIONS
Administrators
Supervisors
Line Staff
Security
Classification
Inmate Programs
Vocational Education
Inmate Education
Inmate Re-entry
Volunteers
Offenders, Families
Jail Industries
Substance Abuse
Other
Franklin Co. Jail Advisory Committee
Benefits?
Arapahoe
County,
Colorado
(famous
for its
acoustics)
The definition used by federal initiatives holds that
a jail industry is:
The use of inmate labor,
to create a product or deliver a service
that has value,
and for which inmates receive some
form of compensation.
Every Jail has at least one jail industry
• Under this definition, when an inmate works
in the kitchen helping to serve food, and is
given extra visits or additional commissary
items,
• That’s a jail industry at work.
Recycling Hangers (Arapahoe Co, Colo.
POSITION STATEMENT
Correctional industry programs at the federal,
state, and local levels contribute significantly
to effective offender rehabilitation..
Position, cont.
• Correctional
industries
assist jails
and
correctional
facilities that
operate in a
safe and
secure
manner
Jails are not as productive as
prisons
• Over ¾ of federal inmates
work
• Nearly half of the inmates
in state prisons work
• Less than 1/5 of jail
inmates work 6 or more
hours daily
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Federal
State
Local
But Jails still deliver more inmate
labor hours than federal prisons
• Jail inmates deliver
over 200 million
hours of labor
annually
• The potential for
increasing jail
productivity is much
greater than prisons
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Jails
Federal
State
Mill. Hrs
Reducing Inmate Idleness;
• Results in safer jail environments
• Inmates engaged in and interesting
activities are less likely to cause
problems
• Misconduct (on or off the job) results in
inmate’s loss of job, giving us strong
leverage to promote good behavior
• Wages earned by inmates allow for
payment of court-ordered fines and
victim restitution, support for families
and reduced cost to taxpayers
SHOE REPAIR
Reducing operating costs;
• Wages paid to inmates resulted in deductions
of over $26 million in FY06 for court costs,
victim restitution, room and board, income
taxes, and inmate savings plans.
• Jail Industries programs can cost you
nothing.
• With sales of good or services you could have
(profit) retained earnings.
Jail Industries is the best program that
government doesn’t pay for
Most Jail Industries operate
financially independently,
generating their own operating
revenue and capital improvement
funds from the sale of goods and
services
Miami-Dade Habitat for Humanity
Jail Industries
Enhancing Successful Reentry
• High percentage (90%) of inmates will
eventually be released from jail and prison–
almost 100% from jails.
• Providing offenders with job skills training,
and work experience
• Ability to get a decent job with a living wage
critical to successful reentry
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Jail Industries
Enhancing Successful Reentry
• Jobs teach vocational skills, or at least
competencies and work habits, that are often
directly applicable to outside jobs
• Industries jobs help them become productive
law-abiding citizens
• Studies show ex-offenders with industries
experience find better jobs, faster, and hold
them longer than those without jail industries
experience.
Jail Industries
Reducing Recidivism
• Jobs help inmates better cope with day-today issues.
• Work experience help them make better
choices and react to problems less severely.
• Studies show that ex-offenders having JI
experience exhibit significantly lower
recidivism rates (as low as 8%).
Jail Industries
Impact Recidivism
• Reduced recidivism results in lower cost
to taxpayers associated with
incarceration.
• A recidivism failure often results in a
crime.
• A lower recidivism results in lower crime
and fewer crime victims.
Work Ethic
• Inmates gain a positive work ethic while
earning modest wages for their labor.
• May be first real job for many inmates
• Teaches responsibility
• How to get up and go to work every day
• Work as a team, follow directions from a
supervisor and abide by shop rules.
Work Ethic
• Gain work satisfaction and pride by
producing something of value.
EMBROIDERY
Work Hours
• In 2006, nearly 83,000 inmates worked for
correctional industries compiling over 126
million work hours.
Recycling computers in Clark County,
Washington
Studies
• Studies validate that released inmates having
correctional industries experience secure
better paying jobs, obtain work more quickly,
and retain jobs longer than inmates without
this experience.
• Recent study by Dr. Cindy Smith, June 2006
• Other studies can be referenced from NCIA
GRAPHIC DESIGN
• Reduced recidivism results in lower crime
rates, and save taxpayers the burden of
paying the cost of incarcerating repeat
offenders.
SILKSCREEN
TAXPAYERS
• Correctional industries fund the salaries and
benefits for over 8,250 civilian staff.
• 200 million hours of JAIL inmate labor
annually nearly equal the number of hours
worked by paid employees– imagine the cost
of jails without that inmate labor!
TRASH CLEAN-UP
TAXPAYERS
• In addition, each year over $1.2 billion is
spent by correctional industries purchasing
raw materials, supplies, and services from
local businesses.
• JAILS in some counties are helping local
business to expand their markets and sales.
PACKAGING
BELIEFS & VALUES
We believe we are living in a time of historical
change in correctional industries and
corrections as a whole.
– NCIA
Uniforms, Hampden Co. Mass.
BELIEFS & VALUES
We value the commitment to professionalism
and a continual learning environment.
– NCIA
FURNITURE MAKING
BELIEFS & VALUES
We value diverse, high quality, evolving
education programs.
– NCIA
PRINTING
BJA
• The BJA Jail Work Industry Center was created to
help jails move forward with the appropriate use of
inmate labor.
Creative Ways
• Many jails have found creative ways to involve more
inmates, increase efficiency, and operate more
responsibly.
Now We Have Proof! Inmates Who
Work While Confined Do Much Better
After Release
Correctional Industries Preparing Inmates
for Re-entry: Recidivism & Post-release
Employment
National Institute of Justice
Cindy J. Smith, Jennifer Bechtel, Angie
Patrick, Richard R. Smith and Laura
Wilson-Gentry.
Economists Agree: Inmates Contribute
to Economy
Economics of Inmate Workforce Participation
4 Independent Papers– Harvard, Princeton,
Chicago, Texas
If 2 million inmates were available to the private
sector, how would the economy be affected?
Define “Insanity”
• U.S. Dept. of Justice—
– National Institute of Corrections
– National Institute of Justice
– Bureau of Justice Assistance
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Resource documents
Pilot programs
Training, technical assistance
Articles and Presentations
What’s Holding You Back?
Resources
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www.jailwork.com
www.nationalcia.org
www.nicic.org
www.ncjrs.org
Jail Work and
Industries
www.jailwork.com
presented by
Carl Barker and Rod Miller