2008 Annual Report - Correction Enterprises

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New Technologies • Expanding CapabilitiesMESSAGE FROMTHE DIRECTORTo Our Valued Customers and Stakeholders,Thank you for your interest and continued support of Correction Enterprises. We arepleased to share our 2008 Annual Report with you – highlighting our New Technologiesand Expanded Capabilities as well as our success stories.Correction Enterprises provides a unique service to the State of North Carolina. We usetechnology and skills that emulate the private sector to train, encourage and demand thebest efforts, quality and productivity from the state’s most unlikely employees: incarceratedmen and women.During the Fiscal Year 2007/2008, Correction Enterprises made significant progressin our goal to provide quality products and services to the State of North Carolina. Newproducts included female inmate clothing, expansion of our ANSI Safety Vest line, newergonomically designed mesh-back office chairs and a line of environmentally sensitivejanitorial products. Additionally, the purchase of a high-volume press allowed us to greatlyexpand our four-color process printing capabilities.Correction Enterprises continues to focus resources on our most important productproduced – a well trained inmate ready to re-enter society as a productive, law abidingcitizen. This year, new emphasis was placed on Department of Labor apprenticeshipopportunities for inmates, highlighted by the start-up of the Reupholstery Apprenticeshipat Pamlico Correctional Institution and the Digital Printing Apprenticeship at the NCCorrectional Institution for Women.Through this report, I invite you to take a closer look at Correction Enterprises’ valuesand business practices. I think you will agree, contributing to the mission of CorrectionEnterprises makes a difference, not only to the lives of the offenders, but to the State ofNorth Carolina. I appreciate all of your support this past year and in the years to come.Sincerely,Karen A. BrownDirector“The most important product producedby Correction Enterprises is a well-trained,highly motivated inmate, ready to transitionto a productive citizen upon releasefrom incarceration.”- Karen Brown, NCCE Director2 3
Correction Enterprises provides quality products and services to our customerswhile providing job skill training opportunities to inmates who work at CorrectionEnterprises’ plants. Correction Enterprises has managed to keep the pace of modernmanufacturing by constructing new facilities, or upgrading existing plants andby utilizing a combination of planned development and balanced technology. Wecontinue to provide the fundamentals that supply structure, purpose and training tomeet the demanding needs of North Carolina’s prison system and its inmates.APPRENTICESHIP AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAMSFor over 10 years Correction Enterprises has partnered with the state and nationalDepartment of Labor (DOL), the Division of Prisons and the Community CollegeSystem to establish apprenticeship programs that will eventually lead the successfulinmate to certification as a Journeyman. By using DOL job competency standards,Correction Enterprises ensures that training provided to inmates is congruous withthose skills recognized by an industry, as necessary for competent performance atthe Journeyman level in that industry. These standards usually require at least 144hours of related classroom instruction for every 2,000 hours of on-the-job training.Currently, Correction Enterprises has apprenticeship programs in CombinationWelding, Printing (six separate programs), Reupholstery, Duplicating ServicesTechnology and Digital Graphics (Embroidery) with plans for adding in the nearfuture, Apprenticeship programs in Laundry Mechanic, Laundry Wash Technician,Sewing Machine Mechanic, CAD Design Technician and Casegoods are planned forthe near future. To be eligible for the apprenticeship programs, inmates must havea high school diploma or equivalent. All apprenticeship programs are administeredand awarded by the North Carolina Department of Labor.One of the newest apprenticeship programs is at the Quick Copy Plant. Hands-ontraining includes the technical operation of the various software applications,including: Microsoft Office 2000, Windows XP, Excel and PowerPoint. ClassroomWORKFORCEDEVELOPMENT“Let us think of education as the means ofdeveloping our greatest abilities, because in each ofus there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled,can be translated into benefit”for everyone and greaterstrength for our nation.-John F. Kennedy45
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