WVCI is a correctional program: industrial production teaches work habits and skills to men and women who typically have no prior meaningful employment experience and who, once released, will need legitimate work. Correctional industries contributes to higher post-release employment success and lowers recidivism (return to prison) rates. WVCI is self-supporting through its revenues from sales. We not only supply quality products and services to governmental agencies at competitive prices, but also provide correctional programming for approximately 250 incarcerated men and women at no cost to West Virginia's taxpayers.

WVCI is part of the management and control of West Virginia's prison population. Correctional Industries represents a major tool for eliminating idleness, a leading cause of disruptiveness and violence behind prison walls. WVCI replicates outside working world conditions. Inmates working for Correctional Industries typically work seven hours per day, five days per week. In extraordinary circumstances, overtime may be authorized to meet deadlines. Average hourly wages are $0.77, which varies depending on job title and time in grade, with additional possibility of productivity bonuses. Again, to replicate outside realities, Correctional Industries inmate workers ae required to either have a high school diploma or be making progress toward earning an equivalency diploma.