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Still, “people think, ‘You’re paying a billion dollars, so they should be doing something to offset it,’ ” said Wayne Garner, the mayor of Carrollton and former head of the Corrections Department in the 1990s.
Georgia inmates aren’t paid for their work, making the labor an attractive option for state officials. Garner noted that convict carpenters are refurbishing the city’s old train depot. That work, officials said, was estimated to be $1 million, but the free labor cut the cost to a third of that.
Inmates also work six Corrections Department farms, 14,150 acres, providing prisons with 43 percent of their food. The farming operation is one part of Georgia Correctional Industries, a prison-run entity that runs 18 factories in 15 prisons.
Prison officials tout the program as self-sufficient, giving prisoners skills and keeping them from returning to prison.
State agencies are mandated to purchase the prison-manufactured goods, ranging from desks, chairs and mattresses, to boots, eyeglasses and wax stripper.

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