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7 <br />Sentence Reduction <br />Inmates receive a 6-day a month sentence reduction for each month worked, <br />Supervision <br />One unarmed correctional officer supervises a crew of up to ten (10) minimum-security inmates. <br />The supervising correctional officer and the requesting agency strictly enforce safe work practices.. <br />General Prison Population Profile <br />Inmates, who are mentally and physically able, are assigned work upon entering the regular <br />inmate population. However, many inmates do not possess the education and skills needed to <br />earn a living after their prison release. These inmates receive academic and vocational education <br />to prepare them for future jobs while in prison and/or after their release. <br />The prison population is categorized into three security levels: minimum, medium, and close. Only <br />minimum-security inmates are housed at the Orange County Correctional Center and participate in <br />the Community Work Program. <br />Minimum-security inmates are misdemeanants and selected felons that have either little time <br />remaining on their sentence or who have been determined not to present a high security or escape <br />risk. They are housed in correctional centers without manned gun towers or other security devices. <br />Work assignments allow these inmates to help their families by sending money home, pay taxes <br />and otherwise lessen the financial burden of incarceration. These inmates are supervised by one <br />unarmed correctional officer at the ratio of one officer tc ten (10) inmates. <br />Department of Correction <br />Community Work Program <br /># of Security Classification and Work Assignment <br />Inmates Assigned Program Description <br />437 Lang-term Contracts with State and Minimum security inmates <br /> Local Government A encies Various work assi nments <br />279 Short-term Contracts with State and Minimum security inmates <br /> Local Government A encies Various work assi nments <br />The information above was gathered from the N. C. Department of Correction web site, the <br />Director of the N. C. Department of Correction, Orange County Prison Superintendent, and <br />Orange County Community Work Program Officer Braswell. <br />North Department of Correction Page - 3 - <br />Community Work Program <br />