ACI Balances Labor and Labor-Saving Technologies
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of NCIA News. For more information on NCIA News, please go to National Correctional Industry Association(link is external).
In most industries, state-of-the-art manufacturing means increased automation and decreased work force. But for CIs, whose mission is to work more inmates, we need to take a different approach. We need to:
- Understand the trends, techniques and best practices of our competitors in the various industries we serve and make investments in new equipment where they are necessary to keep us competitive.
- Recognize that learning how to use this new equipment enhances inmates’ jobs-skills and marketability.
- At the same time, we also need to constantly be looking for new business opportunities to create jobs for the inmates displaced by automation, both within our facilities and for them once they are released.
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