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JOINERY
Coffin Making For Joinery Shop  The next line of product to come out of the joinery shop at the Medium Security Prison is coffin. Joinery officer POA Pita Cama says samples have been produced by the boys in four designs and the outcome has been very encouraging. “What we have produced is comparable if not better in terms of quality of work and timber used than those currently available in the market,” says POC Cama. “We might be able to sell our coffins at a cheaper price because of the minimal labour cost.” The Prisons Department is exploring the possibility of going into coffin making on a commercial basis and some research has gone into it. At present the joinery has been able to sell most of its products through the Market Days being organised by the Department in Suva, Lautoka and Nausori. The joinery’s most popular products are the wooden chests which have been sold at prices lower than those charged by furniture shops because the free prisoner’s labour. The joinery also produces walking sticks(cane), wooden Afro hair comb, tea trays, preachers/lecture stands and coconut shell hair pins. The joinery is a fully fledged shop commercial equipped machines such as cross cut saw, rip saw, bench saw, sand belt, buzzer, lather and portable machines such as jig saw, router, sander and drill. Skills upgrade courses have been conducted at the joinery by the Training and Productivity Authority(TPAF) and inmates have been released with trade certificates. |
Fiji Corrections Service
The successful reintegration of offenders into the community is the best security for society.
The successful reintegration of offenders into the community is the best security for society.
