Behind Bars - Doing Press Time

In prison, a job provides not only a little spending money (about 30 cents an hour to start), but gives an inmate a purpose amidst the monotony of prison life. In the in-plant he can forget he's a prisoner. One fight and he might lose that privilege.

"The inmates say when they're working here it doesn't even seem like a prison," comments Charles Wagner, site manager at the 48-employee Juniper Valley Print Shop, in Canon City, Colo., part of the Centennial Correctional Facility. "It is a very relaxed atmosphere in the shop."