AUGUSTA - The Maine Department of Corrections today released No Idle Hands, a 15-minute video profile of Maine Prison Systems signature Wood Products Industry. Prisoners have been working with wood in Maines correctional facilities since 1828. The program is unique in the nation, providing measurable value in managing correctional facilities and prisoner rehabilitation. The editing is excellent and the story really draws you in. It is so nice to see how industries made such a difference in the lives of these guys. Very impressive! said MDOCs Director of Industries Scott Reiff, after seeing the video. No Idle Hands is an in-house production by MDOCs Director of Special Projects Scott K Fish and DG Media Arts based in Wayne, Maine. The quality wood products at the Prison Showroom in Thomaston have been attracting thousands of tourists and locals since the early 1930s. Everyone involved in this video felt that, among the many MDOC stories worth sharing with the public, the full story of the Wood Products Industry is a story long overdue, said Scott Fish. No Idle Hands takes viewers on a complete tour, from harvesting and milling timber at Charleston Correctional Center in Charleston, Maine, to interviews with prisoners currently working in the program at Maine State Prison in Warren, to free men who once worked in the program as prisoners at MSP. We now have that special video to share with the public that really does justice to the behind-the-scenes efforts going on daily to make the Industries Program successful, and the lives the program is impacting, said MSP Deputy Warden Robert Walden, is a former Director of Industries. No Idle Hands will be shown at the Prison Industry Showrooms in Thomaston and Windham, with other locations to be determined. It is available now on MDOCs Facebook page.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:33:03 +0000
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