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Job Cut Back for Prisoners in Federal Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison workforce feels pinch July 21, 2010 By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY The nation's unemployment crisis is now reaching far inside prison walls. Since 2008, thousands of inmates have lost their jobs as federal authorities shutter and scale back operations at prison recycling, furniture, cable and electronics assembly factories to try to make up $65 million in losses. The job cuts, prison officials say, mean a dramatic reduction in job training for inmates preparing for release, lost wages for prisoners to pay down child support and other court-ordered fines, and more tension in already overcrowded institutions. "Anytime we have a loss of inmate jobs ... it becomes more challenging to keep inmates constructively occupied," federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley says...continue to full post

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