Illinois will no longer sell products made in prisons to state agencies, private groups – Effingham Daily News

“What we decided to do was to bring industries within DOC and not worry about sales, predicating that program not on sales, but on vocational training,” said ICI Chief Administrative Officer Jared Brunck. These skills are part of what contributes to ICI workers having a recidivism rate of about 20%; According to state data, the general population of Illinois prisoners had a recidivism rate of 41% last year.