Manufacturing Productive Citizens

“Two prison businesses show how for-profit enterprising can achieve philanthropic ends.

Wichita, Kansas, is one of America’s manufacturing hubs. Over 55,000 locals make things for a living. I’m meeting with a group of them now. 

These are managers who oversee the assembly of complicated electrical harnesses in one locale, and build the Porsche of tractor seats at another nearby site. Most of them are lifers in manufacturing. I ask how they came to be employed by the unusual investment company—known as Capital III—that owns their factories, and why many of them have stayed with it so loyally.” Continue reading.

Source: Philanthropy Magazine