[Citizen Zed]

People skills?

[BipolarBob]

Yes, even cannibals have to have people skills.

[Calvin Locke]

I used to stop by there, passing through Thomaston. Can't remember anything we (the then-wife) bought there except for the window sticks to hold windows up at various heights (until I got around to fixing all the sash cords).

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.

[Slambat]

“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.

[NYFriend]

Most inmate (90%+ ) will get out. If they have skills they might or might not go back in. If they have nothing, they will go back. Also, ask a CO, the more you give inmates something to do, they are less likely to get into trouble, and you have something you can take away from them if the misbehave.

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