The prison commissary sells various personal supplies and food items to inmates. DOC operates the commissary using three district warehouses, each of which serves several DOC facilities.
Facilities do not have individual stores. Inmates assigned to these warehouses process and package orders under the supervision of commissary staff. Table 2 provides the number of authorized work assignments classified as revolving fund positions. Table 2: Revolving Fund Positions. This program is authorized by state and federal law. An inmate may participate in this program only on a voluntary basis and only after he has been informed of the conditions of his or her employment.
The DOC has an agreement with SourceOne to have inmates at the York facility scan a variety of documents, such as utility bills, architectural drawings, and others. There are 13 authorized work assignments classified as private industry positions. Work-Release Programs. According to the DOC, there are inmates living at 25 halfway houses participating in work-release programs. No inmates currently living in prison facilities participate in these programs.
Public Service Work. Inmates can participate in activities and services that benefit state, municipal, and local government agencies or nonprofit organizations. Services may include volunteer projects related to maintaining or elevating the quality of the environment, such as enhancing hiking trails, beaches, and parks; labor and maintenance in building restoration projects; soup kitchens; churches; participation in humanitarian endeavors at nursing homes and community shelters; involvement in public speaking for schools and community groups; and construction of goods to be donated.
Information on the number of inmates that participate in public service was not available. According to Massachusetts ' DOC Director of Legislative and Government Affairs, inmates ' assignments include operational work within the prison facilities, work in various prison industries, general and specialized work crews, and work-release programs.
Inmates that participate in operational work within the facilities may work in the kitchen, prepare food, assist in the library, and act as housemen and runners. Inmates working in the industries create products such as clothing, mattresses, license plates, office furniture, and tools such as push brooms. Minimum security inmate work crews perform tasks such as cleaning trash on highways.
Specialized crews are formed to clean state office buildings, or clean after events such as the Boston Marathon. Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program GSBB , is an initiative designed to maintain and grow mother-child relationships while mothers are away.
The troop's activities are centered on rebuilding the tenuous relationships, and in addition to arts and crafts and learning life skills, the mothers and daughters bond by asking and answering tough questions of each other. Inside Out Dads Inside Out Dads is a curriculum for incarcerated fathers that bridges the gap between the inmate father and his children.
Through the program, inmate dads deal with their pasts in order to discover their futures—and the possibility that they can parent differently from their own, often absent, fathers. Long Distance Dads The Long Distance Dads program focuses on parenting and relationship skills, and Fathers as Readers has dads' tape recording stories to send home for their children to hear. If being a good father is a challenge in the best of circumstances, it's particularly tough for men behind bars.
Such programs "can make a difference not just in the lives of children, but in the recidivism rate — keeping these guys out, and making them productive citizens. Conferencing is intended to assist inmates in maintaining positive connections with their children and to engage these parents with the teachers to support the academic success of their children.
Partners in Parenting Partners in Parenting focuses on the identified concerns of recovering parents and encourages learning and skill-building in key areas such as parent-child communication, developmental expectancies, guidance and discipline, problem solving, and self-care.
The intervention contains materials for an 8-session structured workshop that allows participants to practice parenting strategies and discuss their experiences with others.
Preparing for Release Preparing for Release is designed for inmates returning to a family type environment, and occurs at the institution within 6 months of release. Preparing for Release consists of four 4-hour sessions. Sessions 1 and 3 are with the inmate only, while Sessions 2 and 4 are with inmate and a family member. Preparing for Release provides healthy communication techniques and boundaries for families to safely discuss their concerns and expectations prior to release.
At the conclusion of Preparing for Release, each participating family will have developed a "Family Re-entry Agreement" that identifies and prioritizes the entire family's needs prior to the inmate returning home.
This hands-on work offers the inmate training on a specific skill that provides them with ways to return to society and contribute as well as earn a wage. While incarcerated, the working inmate offsets their cost of incarceration. They earn a small wage while creating a product that can be purchased at substantial savings by businesses and organizations.
Developed in by Congress, the U. This created a unique prison work program that allowed inmates to work for private companies. Specifically, outside private companies can submit to all the necessary requirements and then be exempt from federal restrictions on prisoner-made goods.
If your loved one is currently incarcerated with access to a prison work program, speaking to them about their options may help determine if a particular program is the right one. However, upon release, inmates participating in any of these three programs are at an advantage than those who do not.
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