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Utah prison inmates building homes for state

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Utah prison inmates building homes for state October 14th, 2008 @ 10:05pm By Lori Prichard The State of Utah is now in the business of building and selling homes, in the hopes of providing those homes to lower- and middle-income families. The catch is some of those homes are being built by prison inmates. Thirty-one-year-old Ervin Brafford showed off the one thing he's most proud of: a house. "Because when you get there, it's a dirt path. And at the end of it, you've got this," Brafford explained. It's a 5-bedroom, 2-bath house in Salt Lake that a group of inmates from the Utah State Prison built. The prison system, along with the state-run Utah Housing Corporation, teamed up to build homes to offer them to lower-income families. "We're in partnership in building affordable homes...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 18, 2008 (boomark / email).