December’s meeting of the board in charge of Texas prisons included a presentation on the production of license plates at the Wynne unit in Huntsville.
Inmates produce 10 million license plates a year from 850 designs.
Assistant manager of the license plate operation James Stewart says production will increase when they are notified by the department of motor vehicles to make plates that will replace paper tags to comply with legislative action. That could mean adding a second shift.
Prison director Bryan Collier brought up a special project that is underway. All Collier said was plates will be delivered in January to an undisclosed recipient in Washington D.C.
Texas license plates have been made in state prisons since 1935.
The chairman of the Texas board of criminal justice (TBCJ), Eric Nichols, said each day, inmates produce 80,000 general and 2,500 specialized license plates.
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