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Morgan is one of thousands of prisoners across the country who are engaged in useful and sometimes even profitable work. The range of jobs is wide, from assembling solar energy panels and setting type to milking cows and, in Colorado, building a new $6 million prison near Canon City. Convicts in Thomaston, Me., cannot keep up with demand for their sturdy hardwood furniture. A production line at Minnesota's Lino Lakes penitentiary repairs Toro Trimmer-Weeders, outperforming the company's own employees. Not all these employed prisoners are male; select inmates at the Colorado Women's Correctional...
...work has a therapeutic effect," says Ed Fox, head of Colorado's prison industry program. At the simplest level, it reduces boredom, and hence its byproduct, violence. Adds Rodney Page, wood products manager at Thomaston...
...prison work is as lucrative as Dan Morgan's in Stillwater. Colorado pays its inmates up to $3.04 an hour, but a few states like Texas pay nothing, and the national average is a modest 20? to 30? an hour. Whatever their outlay, the states aim for a good return. It costs about $10,000 to house the average prisoner for a year, and with inmate population expanding and taxpayers' tolerance shrinking, legislators are loath to spend any more than they absolutely must to keep their penal systems going. Thus it is a boon when a state...
...knee watching closely. Carter Aides Jody Powell and Tim Kraft pushed their way into the rickety command center. Alabama was solid for Carter, but when California passed, Jordan thought he saw a strategy. "Kennedy is holding back the big states to make the others uneasy," he said. When Colorado lost a few Carter delegates, the group moved restlessly, but there was no real concern. Maine took the microphone, and Jordan sat up, wondering if the President had reached Muskie in time. He had, and Carter's down-East votes stuck with him. Needled Jordan: "I hope Massachusetts puts...
...performance last week makes that possible, but far from certain. In losing the nomination, he punctured the myth of Kennedy invincibility and thus opened the way for campaigns by other Democrats like Vice President Walter Mondale, Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, Governor Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. Some of these men are further along in reshaping a new Democratic approach to government than is Ted Kennedy...