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READ MOREJust as I appreciate the hard work that you do every day to support the Department mission and stories like this remind us of how we are making a positive impact on the lives of inmates. But ACI goes well beyond that by making a very positive economic impact for the State of Arizona.
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READ MORECultivating a management culture where these three — seemingly opposing — objectives are clearly understood and consistently met is no small feat. However, at Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI) just such a transformation in the management culture is well under way.
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READ MOREChallenge: Each year there are boating accidents and drownings on the many lakes and streams around the state. The department staff provides training classes to reduce these numbers, but thought they could substantially reduce drownings by providing loaner life vests at on-site boat launch areas. Solution…
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Article / Company Information / Reprint / Services April 25, 2015
READ MOREVicki regularly purchases products – from office supplies through raw fabric and steel by the ton – from more than 200 different vendors. And though some of it arrives via UPS, FedEx and the USPS, most of the products she buys each month arrive by the truckload (or several trucks)
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READ MOREADC Director Charles Ryan told those gathered, “It gives me great pride to work with the Hickman family and see the positive impact that our inmate work program has had for Hickman’s Farms, for the inmates, and for the public.”
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READ MORERandy explained many of the techniques the trainers use to “get the horses and burros thinking instead of just reacting.”
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Article / Company Information / Reprint / Services November 2, 2014
READ MORE“Working with Televerde allowed me to step out of my orange ever day for 8 hours,” Rebecca said. “I spent my days talking to decision makers at businesses across the country. I was a professional. And I was constantly learning.”
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Article / Company Information / Reprint / Services August 25, 2014
READ MOREOriginally, ACI had not set out to become an environmentally-conscious organization. But suddenly it was on this path with the start of the ACI Green Initiative.
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Article / Company Information / Reprint / Services April 25, 2014
READ MORE“We first partnered with ACI in 1995 when we learned about the program. It made sense to us that by teaching offenders employable skills we could help give them better choices once they were released,” said Billy Hickman, Vice President of Operations for Hickman Farms.
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READ MOREStarting with a small inmate work team of four in the Cheyenne Unit at Yuma Prison, “the results, as predicted, were outstanding,” continued Brian Goheen, Safety Services Vice President of Operations. “We quickly went to eight stations, then 12 and before we knew it we’d maxed out the capacity of the unit and expanded out into a larger space within the prison.”
