Are Oracle’s Institutional Heavyweight Investors Eyeing $30 Again?4/4.1114 Zipper on a pair of jeans Pixabay All manner of clothes are made by prisoners throughout the world. There’s a good chance that something you’re wearing was made by UNICOR or through a job training program, from blue jeans to trucker hats. Such systems also do a lot of embroidery and screen-printing so if you wear a graphic T-shirt there is a possibility that it could have been made by UNICOR. 2.
Uniforms
4/4.1115 The Walking Dead character wears a uniform that may have its origins in mass incarceration. AMC Actually, Technically, uniforms are clothing. But they’re a sort of specialized clothing type more of a work accessory than anything else. And American prisoners manufacture many of them, including uniforms for the law enforcement to construct military uniform accessories (belts etc.). But as screen-printing and embroidery have been described, prison labor is also a viable choice for businesses looking to create custom uniforms. 3.
Furniture
4/4.1116 UNICOR office furniture United States of America Prison office You can outfit your home or office with desk lamps and inside tables fitted with chairs. This is one of the biggest sellers of UNICOR with a specialty in office furniture. ‘ UNICOR Office Furniture Company provides federal agencies with a wide range of high-quality, cost-effective office furniture and facilities, while at the same time providing valuable work experience and training for federal prisoners ‘ according to the UNICOR website. 4.
Mattresses
4/4.1117 Furniture store iStock.com / IPGGutenbergUKLtd Approximately a third of your life is spent sleeping. Which means you can buy a mattress that is comfortable to last. And it just happens that those are made by prisoners too. In many cases prisoners actually make mattresses of their own. In Kentucky one initiative was so successful that plans are being made to begin producing mattresses for places like homeless shelters. One study said two inmates with a single sewing machine operating for eight hours can create as many as 20 mattresses. 4.
Product packaging
4/4.1118 A Starbucks cup that has been discarded Justin Sullivan / Getty Images A quick look around your home or office will reveal a lot of packaging. Seriously there is packaging everywhere but after a while we begin to screen it out. And some of those prisoners made for packaging. For example some Starbucks cups were made in prisons. Also big tech companies like Microsoft have been tapping into the labor market in jail. 6.
Signage
4/4.1120 Lingerie | Naughty is as naughty is. Why should you feel that an inmate has sewn your lingerie (or lingerie that belongs to your loved one? It doesn’t seem to be a feature of the industry. But businesses like Victoria’s Secret have in the past recruited prisoners to create products. This was also shown in Orange Is The New Black in the Netflix show. 8.
Car parts
4/4.1121 2017 Honda Accord Indoor Hybrid James Derek Sapienza / Autos Cheat Sheet Who knows where all the parts and components in your car come from? Most of us believe that they are manufactured in countries like Mexico or China; they are shipped to American assembly plants; and they are pieced together. That’s pretty much right. But some businesses have used prisoners somewhere down the line to build some of those components. For example, a 2006 report from Alternet claimed Honda had previously employed inmates to produce some parts for its cars. 9.
Food
4/4.1122 Ground beef iStock.com Would you be eating a hamburger if you knew a prisoner had served it up? The reality alone would probably not put most people off but oddly enough food processing in some prisons is a big industry. Along with many federal agencies and public universities, one system that processes beef and chicken operates to provide job training and produce food. “Training is carried out in more than 20 programs, including Patty Machine Operations Meat Grinding Operations Food Developer and Tester Batch Master Quality Assurance Tester and Equipment Cleaner” according to the website of Prison Rehabilitation Industries and Diversified Enterprises. 10.