Inmate Workers Make Food For Entire Washington State Prison Population

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, WA - NOVEMBER 10: Inmates at the Airway Heights Corrections Center load muffin mix into pans at the largest prison-based food factory in the Northwest, November 10, 2005 in Airway Heights, Washington. Inmates produce frozen meals, baked goods, and tray lunches for more than 16,000 inmates incarcerated in the Washington State prison system and meals for jails and senior food programs. The Airway Heights food factory,part of Correctional Industries, is one of 32 businesses the state operates in prisons to provide jobs for inmates in order to teach job skills and work ethic, and to reduce correctional costs to the taxpayer. (Photo by Jeff T. Green/Getty Images)