As of January, all of the doors and window frames for the minimum security facility at Two Rivers Correctional Facility in Umatilla had been shipped. Inc. When completed in late summer, up to 40 inmates will make prefabricated concrete panels for the construction industry. Beginning in October, the laundry will provide services to PeaceHealth, Inc., a private non-profit corporation that, among other things, operates Sacred Heart Hospital. The contract will provide work for 25 additional inmates. The farm will sell to both the private and public sectors under contract or on the open market.
Retail sales are a possibility.
Oregon's new prisons include separate medium and minimum custody housing units. In the new prison design, one central kitchen in the medium custody area of the institution prepares meals for all inmates. At Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla , the minimum custody facility will begin operation in September, 1998. B and D are the most likely solutions to the dilemma. Designs are being reviewed for the construction of a mobile kitchen similar to those used by the armed forces and the Forest Service.