Posted on 11/28/2014 10:34:08 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Items range from $1.95 pencil holders to a $100,000 sculpture of the Roman god Neptune and a mermaid riding a motorcycle. The USS Constitution models, which retail for $2,150, were sold out by midday Friday.
Maine Prison Industries manager Ken Lindsey said sales from the work program total more than $1 million per year. Prisoners are paid $1 to $3 per hour, which must first go toward court restitution and child support payments, but more importantly, the program teaches inmates job skills and people skills that they can use upon release, Lindsey said.
"We have, possibly, a murderer working next to child molester or a pedophile," Lindsey said. "You have to get along, learn people skills.
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Yes, even cannibals have to have people skills.
The artsy ex would not have been interested in displaying a motorcycle being ridden by Neptune and a mermaid, though, even if it was as cheap as a pencil holder.
Neither would I, to be truthful.
“I used to stop by there, passing through Thomaston.”
My wife and I did also. We bought a few pieces of furniture there. For what we needed it for, the price was right and it was well made. Other friends of ours would buy things there for their vacation places.
I wish someone would buy the horrible, life-size mermaid on the Harley that’s been in the window for years.
“I wish someone would buy the horrible, life-size mermaid on the Harley that’s been in the window for years.”
Maybe they don’t want to sell it. It get’s attention, right?
I have a chopping block that I bought in Thomaston from them. What I remember were the nice officers and the evil-looking cons who worked behind the counter. I think they were chained or something...
Aaargh....there it is!
Jezum Crow! My eyes!
“Maine Prison Industries manager Ken Lindsey said sales from the work program total more than $1 million per year. Prisoners are paid $1 to $3 per hour, which must first go toward court restitution and child support payments, but more importantly, the program teaches inmates job skills and people skills that they can use upon release, Lindsey said.”
If enough of these companies go public, Wall Street will
be lobbying the state and federal penal code for a better
class of criminal to fatten the bottom line. They could start by loading
up the jails with employers that hire wetbacks and let them work for $1 to $3 a day.
Soon there will be a new meaning to a hard labor sentence.
You’re sentence length will be how long it takes you to
earn X amount at X amount per X amount of time.
I had one or two inmate painted oil paintings. Might have cost $10 each. I think at the time they could work for 35 cents an hour. Oil paintings cost money from “artists”. Win-win, all around
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