New York State Will Produce Hand Sanitizer Made By Prison Inmates – By Marina Fang (Huffington Post) / March 9 2020
State prisoners, paid an average of 65 cents an hour, will make the product to combat shortages due to the coronavirus outbreak.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said Monday inmates in a state prison will produce 100,000 gallons of a state-branded hand sanitizer to offset reported price gouging by vendors and shortages of the product in government agencies, schools, prisons and mass transit lines stemming from the coronavirus outbreak.
Cuomo’s announcement came during a daily press conference on the COVID-19 outbreak, which has worsened in New York over the last week.
We’re hearing from local governments that acquiring hand sanitizer has been a real problem.
NYS will immediately begin producing hand sanitizer ourselves — 100,000 gallons per week. We'll provide it to government agencies, schools, the MTA, prisons, & others. #COVID19
— Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 9, 2020
Gov. Cuomo announced today that New York State is producing hand sanitizer. The governor says it is cheaper to make ourselves than purchase it. He says they will give it to schools, jails, government agencies, etc. If price gouging continues, Cuomo says they will start selling it pic.twitter.com/NtLSU54Km5
— WGRZ (@WGRZ) March 9, 2020
Called “NYS Clean,” the hand sanitizer will be produced by inmates at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
Corcraft, the division of the state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision that arranges industrial and manufacturing work for prison inmates, pays inmates an average of 65 cents per hour, Gothamist reported in 2017.
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