The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders believes that inmates should work during their incarceration in order to provide service to the community.
Many inmates work in the institution in janitorial roles.
Others work in the laundry, the kitchen and maintenance shop. Carefully classified inmates work on the institutional grounds - maintaining lawns, cleaning parking lots and the grounds. All of this work reduces taxpayer expense for institutional operations. For example, over 50 inmates work in the kitchen every day to prepare and serve over 3,000 meals. Due to the financial benefits of using inmate workers the County has expanded these services beyond the institution.