Correction Enterprises wants to make your pictures perfect

Eric Malave, right, supervises inmates

RALEIGH – From retirement certificates to poster art for offices, Correction Enterprises has branched out into framing and matting. It is yet another service being offered that not only provides an employable skill for inmates, but also provides state employees with a new option for framing at competitive prices.

The framing and matting operation is located right off Martin Luther King Boulevard at the Quick Copy Center behind the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh. To start, two honor grade inmates from Raleigh Correctional Center for Women just around the corner will be training and working on framing and matting. Eventually, Correction Enterprises hopes to have as many as ten inmates working in the frame shop.

The inmates will work under the direction of Eric Malave who has more than 30 years experience in framing and matting.

“I started in the business learning the very basics and studied the whole process,” said Malave. “I will start the inmates out training on samples and gradually guide them through to the point where they will wind up with a skill that could get them get a job when they are released.”

Inmates cut custom frame

Mary Bullard, Quick Copy Center manager, added that with the skills the inmates will obtain, they could work at any frame shop or potentially work towards operating their own business.

State employees who would like more information about the framing and matting service should visit this link: http://www.correctionenterprises.com/framing/