Texas’s most dangerous prison and one of the worst in the US is the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas. This prison is also the death row prison for inmates, this is where the prisoners awaiting death row are housed.
However, even with all the stigma of this prison being the worst prison and one of the most deadly, there is something inside the walls of the Polunsky Prison that brings a sense of purpose to the inmates and a dream of possibility once the inmate is released.
What Prison in Texas Makes Cardboard Boxes?
The Polunsky Box factory is inside the Polunsky Unit is a box factory, and yes, that is what it sounds like, a factory that makes cardboard boxes, and many inmates from the Polunsky unit are assigned a job inside this factory.
Texas Most Dangerous Prison Makes Boxes – Polunsky Box Factory
The Alan J. Polunsky Unit houses a box factory within the walls where inmates can work making cardboard boxes.
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What is the Purpose of Giving Inmates Jobs While in Prison?
Many of these inmates who work in the factory are learning job skills that will follow them once their prison sentence is complete. According to the Texas Correction Industries, these programs provide marketable job skills while teaching good work habits that can help them find work after being released…