Inmate Deconstruction

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Inmate Deconstruction

• Secretary Gary D. Maynard
• Maryland Department of Public Safety and
  Correctional Services

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DPSCS Inmate Skills Training

• Masonry
• Plumbing
• Electrical
• HVAC
• Carpentry
• Welding/Metalwork
• Roofing
• Equipment Operation

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Inmate Construction ProjectsWhat we are already
doing

• Habitat for Humanity
• Prepped several houses in Baltimore for Habitat
  deconstruction/construction
• Worked on nine new houses in Caroline County
• Currently working on a behind the fence
  opportunity with Maryland Correctional
  Enterprises and Habitat where inmates with longer
  sentences will build energy efficient green
  homes which would then be assembled on site by
  low security inmates
• Landmark Signs
• Bricks salvaged from old Baltimore Coliseum,
  cleaned and used for landmark signs current
  project underway in Sykesville

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Inmate Construction ProjectsWhat we are already
doing

• Second Chances Barn
• Example of training to work opportunity, students
  
• in Occupational Skills Training Center roofing
  class
• rehabbed an old 9,000 sq. ft. barn roof
• Bear Cages for State Parks
• Partnerships with other state agencies help
• achieve more than each could alone
• MCE Warehouse Construction
• Crew worked under assigned contractor to gain
  real-life
• construction experience
• Antietam Battlefield Stone
• 110 tons of locally-quarried stone (left-over
  from 1930s construction of Hagerstown Prison)
  donated to restore historic barn at Antietam

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Deconstruction as Inmate Training

• Opportunities
• Green aspect of deconstruction provides added
  training opportunities for offenders to apply to
  current job market
• Apprenticeship type program certified
  contractor would work directly with inmates to
  give them hands on experience
• Skills gained could include
• Asbestos abatement
• Lead paint abatement
• Soft skills (working with supervisor, etc.)
• Equipment operation
• Saves taxpayer dollars through recycling of
  materials and use of inmate labor

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Future Deconstruction Possibilities

• House of Correction
• 2007 demolition cost estimate of 10 million
• This year deconstruction estimated at 4.5
  million
• 500,000 to design plan for deconstruction
• Contractor would utilize/train inmates while
  working
• Salvage Valuable Material
• Steel, copper, slate, brick stone

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Future Deconstruction Possibilities

• State owned vacant buildings
• Springfield Hospital
• Cheltenham
• Henryton State Hospital
• Washington County Hospital
• Recent Herald-Mail article emphasized Delegate's
• interest in using inmate labor to demolish former
  
• Washington County Hospital

Herald-Mail 2/5/11
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Other State Programs

• Currently working on surveys with other states to
  collect best practices
• National Correctional Industries Association
• Association of State Correctional Administrators
• In 2002 Iowa General Assembly established the
  Demolition Site Waste Task Force among their
  research was how to utilize inmates
• Iowa Department of General Services successfully
  used inmates from the Newton Correctional
  Facility to salvage components from the Capitol
  Annex building. Likewise, the city of Rockwell
  City had success in using inmates from the
  Rockwell City Correctional Facility to
  deconstruct a local building.

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Inmate Deconstruction

• Secretary Gary D. Maynard
• Maryland Department of Public Safety and
  Correctional Services