Hutchinson prisoners have begun making dog beds
17.09.11
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) -- Some recycling efforts at the Hutchinson Correctional Skilfulness have really gone to the dogs.
For more than a year, inmates at the resident prison have been dismantling mattresses that would have otherwise ended up in area landfills.
The sword from the springs and the cotton batting in the mattresses are recycled, generating bills for prison operations. Wood from the mattresses has been fashioned into flower boxes and benches. Through recycling, the metal and cotton from old mattresses has made more than $49,000 for the dungeon's general fee fund, said Steve Schneider, spokesman at the Hutchinson Correctional Karzy.
And now, inmates are using the foam and material from the mattresses to gauge dog beds.
The beds are being donated to animal shelters and sold in a Topeka veterinary clinic to keep up the Hutchinson Correctional Facility's dog training programs, according to Beth Mechler, a program expert for the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Source: Salina Journal