Canoes, motorcycles drive inmate workers beyond license plates - The Pueblo Chieftain: Local

Canoes, motorcycles drive inmate workers beyond license plates - The Pueblo Chieftain: Local: "CANON CITY — Eager to do more than make license
plates, inmate workers here are bustin' out."
CANON CITY — Eager to do more than make license plates, inmate workers here are bustin' out.
   Canoes and custom motorcycles are among the newest products being made by inmates working under the Colorado Correctional Industries program. Fishing rods and flies also are recent additions.
   Correctional Industries oversees about 60 inmate work programs in the agricultural, manufacturing and service fields. Offerings range from furniture making to a commercial fish farm.
   The managers of the programs say they're always willing to think outside the fence — and also eager to tap inmates' specific work talents.
   So when inmates at the fiberglass shop at the medium-security Fremont prison aren't building fish tanks, they're making fiberglass-sealed canoes.
  Across town, inmates at the medium-security Territorial prison are building their first custom motorcycle during their down time from making license plates.
  "When we're slow, we try to see what we can do," said Dennis Dunsmoor, who supervises both the fiberglass and license plate plants.
  "Making license plates is not something they are going to do when they get out.