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KS: Prison labor could provide housing

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison labor could provide housing By Rachel Whitten January 24, 2011 (KansasReporter) TOPEKA, Kan. ? The Kansas Department of Corrections is considering putting inmates to work constructing low-income housing. But it is still a long way off, said Bill Miskell, a department spokesman. The KDOC is working with other state agencies on issues like harming the private-sector construction industry. ?Those are the kinds of issues that are being discussed at the present time,? Miskell said. He added that the type of housing inmates would build is not the kind being built by construction companies in Kansas right now. Instead, inmates would work on manufacturing homes inside the prison gates that would be sent out after completion. ?What has been under discussion previously has been building small, single family housing units,? Miskell said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).