North
Carolina Department of Correction
Where Inmates Work
March 31, 2000
INMATES ASSIGNED | WORK ASSIGNMENT | |
2,807 | Food Services | Working in prison kitchens |
4,004 | Unit Services | Maintenance and janitorial work in prisons |
1,163 | Work Release | Employment in the community for inmates soon to be released from prison |
2,094 | Prison industry | Making license tags, highway signs or working in other prison industries |
1,225 | Prison Maintenance | Light construction, repair and groundskeeping at prisons |
2,037 | Road Squads | Clearing brush, picking up litter |
120 | Construction | Building prisons, erecting fencing |
418 | State agencies | Labor contract often involving cleaning building and grounds |
282 | Local agencies | Labor contract often involving cleaning building and grounds |
1,255 | Community Work Crews | Short term, manual labor projects for public agencies |
858 | other jobs | |
1,636 | vocational education (1998) | |
1,646 | academic education (1998) | |
1,386 | Contractual facility inmates in work, job training or education | |
The remaining inmates pose a security risk, are taking part in substance abuse treatment, have health problems, or are being admitted into prison. |