This program offers marketable skill training to the inmates, a workforce to the sheriff's office, cost savings to taxpayers, and a certificate to the inmates upon completion of the training. This work program results in money saved for governmental agencies and provides additional work opportunities for inmates in construction related areas. Completed work projects include the Hendry Wilderness Camp, Tri-County Work Camp conversion, a privacy wall to separate a juvenile justice facility from a residential community in Orlando for the Department of Juvenile Justice, the McCarty Building renovation for the Department of Management Services and Citrus County Maximum Risk Facility. This organization was in need of affordable housing for employees residing in Key West and other areas in the lower Keys and needed assistance with the renovation and daily maintenance of their properties. The Big Pine Key Road Prison provides an inmate work squad that assists with renovation of the family housing units, grounds, maintenance and other daily related maintenance duties on Key West Housing Authority property and, in turn, the authority provides affordable housing units for the department's employees.
Inmates are responsible for a variety of services related to commodity management and distribution.
Division of Blind Services Up to five inmates daily from Daytona Beach Work Release Center work for the Bureau of Braille and Talking Books Library Service. Inmates pack and unpack catalogs and rewind, sort and shelve cassette tapes at the library. Further, in accordance with standards set by the Library of Congress, inmates at Tomoka Correctional Institution read and record literature for the sight impaired. Inmates from Tomoka CI repair, clean and refurbish tape players, translate Braille onto cassette tapes, erase and recycle cassettes and repair Braille machines. Homes, Inc., and the Tampa Work Release Center.