Wednesday, December 04, 2019
Last week Corridor Business Retention & Workforce Partnership Coordinator Joanne Follon and Bob Becker, Spencer IowaWORKS, traveled to the North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City. They had the opportunity to meet with Daniel Clark, Director of the Iowa Prisons Industry (IPI) Program and see the IPI training programs available for inmates to gain the education, soft and hard skills needed to be successful citizens upon their release.
There are three private-sector work partnerships available through the Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program:
1) employers transport offenders to/from the workplace
2) employers subcontract with IPI
3) employers set an operation inside a prison. The Stat...
