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Montana prison program rehabs inmates through business

August 31, 2016 /

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The MDT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program encourages and supports the participation of companies owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals in transportation contracts.

The furniture business, along with Gates and around 25 other inmates working in the shop, are part of a Montana Department of Corrections program aimed at educating incarcerated men and women with vocational and business skills.

The program, Montana Correctional Enterprises, has been around in some form almost as long as the prison itself, and employs nearly 500 inmates in jobs from milking cows to refinishing old tractors to designing and printing every license plate in the state.

"Our goal is to provide education and training to inmates to provide them life skills so that they don’t return to prison," said MCE Administrator Gayle Lambert, sitting in her office last week.

By Lewis Kendall Chronicle Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/business/profile/montana-prison-program-rehabs-inmates-through-business/article_7b910483-f4ce-5a03-9ed0-c0e5565e08eb.html

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