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Inmates get skills and confidence at prison dairy
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Oct 23, 2014
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Inmates get skills and confidence at prison dairy
For 65 cents an hour, inmates at a Central Valley prison milk cows at the prison dairy. The wages are low but the job gives them a skill and something to do.
Corcoran State Prison has a prison dairy where inmates can learn a job skill.
Corcoran State Prison has a prison dairy where inmates can learn a job skill.
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For 65 cents an hour, inmates at a Central Valley prison milk cows at the prison dairy. The wages are low but the job gives them a skill and something to do.

Making license plates is the stereotypical job for a prisoner, but in the Central Valley there's a group of inmates doing very different work - supplying milk to almost all the prisons in the state system.

The low wages for the work may be shocking to people on the outside, but inmates say the job gives them something else.

The California Report's Lisa Morehouse has the story.