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RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) – The Wyoming State Penitentiary has opened a new garment factory with the goal of putting inmates to work and making the state’s prison industries self-sustaining.
About 30 inmates work in the 7,800-square-foot factory that opened last month.
Garment Supervisor Steve Gibson says the prison hopes to employ up to 60 inmates per shift, but workers must have earned at least a General Equivalency Diploma and interview for the job as they would for a typical business.
The factory produces clothing for the state’s correctional institutions and produces department uniforms. It also does some contract work for private clothing businesses.
The inmates receive pay, but most of the money goes to pay for their incarceration, fines and restitution, and to a victims’ relief fund.
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