This story originally appeared in The Guardian on December 9, 2015. The old cliche is true: prisoners do make license plates. But that’s not all they produce. Across the country, inmates have a hand in building desks, molding dentures, grinding lenses for glasses, stitching flags and upholstering chairs. They run prison laundry rooms and kitchens, … Continue reading Beyond cheap labor: can prison work programs benefit inmates?