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.
Inmates hang the bed frames or lockers on a conveyer line, where the product is washed and dried.
Nex it goes into a booth where the metal receives an electrostatically-charged powder paint blown on at low pressure. From the booth, the conveyer carries the product into an oven where it's cured at 380 degrees for twelve to fourteen minutes. The metal fabrication plant is one of a number of inmate jobs at Brown Creek Correctional Institution. Inmates may be assigned to work on road squads, food service, prison maintenance or unit clean up. And it also provides the prison system with products that we need.