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"We're receipt-supported, so we don't have any money appropriated to us from the legislature," Leon explains.

He even intends to expand. A new duplicating facility is planned for the winter of 2000, and Leon is trying to add a second shift in the print plant—a tough move in a prison, where inmates are on strict schedules. In the past five years, Leon says, the offset operation alone has grown from $2 million in annual sales to $4 million.