The metal bed frames and lockers going into new North Carolina prisons are being made by inmates at the metal fabrication plant at Brown Creek Correctional Institution. We've made hollow metal doors and frames.
Inmates work an assembly line that turns out about ten lockers and ten bunks per day.
They also manufacture cabinets, racks, metal doors and customized products. Inmates who complete these classes can then go to work in the plant. But with the training and the experience they get in the plant, we help them develop a good work ethic and skills to get a job. While developing their skills working in the plant, the inmates are paid seventy cents a day. Brown Creek has the first powder coat operation of any of the state's prison industries.