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Roughrider Industries pitches workforce gains and requests equipment funds; paint line replacement singled out as urgent
Summary
Roughrider Industries presented a video and testimony describing vocational training for incarcerated residents, recidivism outcomes, high demand for production, and capital needs including a long‑delayed paint/coatings line replacement and license‑plate production upgrades.
Roughrider Industries, the correctional industries program within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, presented the committee with program highlights and several capital and operating pressures that staff said will affect production and reentry outcomes.
A video shown to the committee described Roughrider’s mission of preparing incarcerated residents for reentry through education, job skill training and certified work experience. The video narrator said, “92 percent of residents who have been enrolled in the Roughrider Industries program for at least 6 months during their incarceration successfully reintegrate back into our communities,” language presented to the committee as program performance.
Rick Gardner, chief administrator for correctional industries, told the committee the shops now run a broad set of businesses…
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