WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.236 >>GERRY: INDIANAPOLIS-BASED NONPROFIT PURPOSEFUL DESIGN IS HELPING THOSE LIVING ON THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY TO CONTRIBUTE 2 00:00:03.236 --> 00:00:09.709 TO THE ECONOMY BY CREATING HIGH-QUALITY FURNITURE. AND A JASPER COUNTY COMPANY HAS PARTNERED WITH THE INDIANA 3 00:00:09.709 --> 00:00:15.949 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION TO GIVE INMATES REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE BEHIND BARS. OUR MARY-RACHEL REDMAN TAKES US 4 00:00:15.949 --> 00:00:28.561 TO BOTH PLACES TO SHOW US HOW THE TWO BUSINESSES ARE HELPING. >> PULLING UP TO THE FACILITIES TALL FENCES AND RAGER -- RAZOR 5 00:00:28.561 --> 00:00:36.102 WIRE IS DAUNTING. ONCE WE GOT IN THERE AND COULD HEAR THE OFFENDERS AND THEIR STORIES, THEY ARE PEOPLE, JUST 6 00:00:36.102 --> 00:00:42.308 LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. WE WANT TO GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY. >> THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT GOLD 7 00:00:42.308 --> 00:00:48.148 STANDARD TRUST IS DOING AT THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. >> THEY GIVE US A TOUR OF THE FACILITY. 8 00:00:48.148 --> 00:00:55.455 IT WAS LIKE WALKING INTO ANY OTHER MANUFACTURING FACILITY. GUYS ARE WORKING AND WORKING AND WORKING AND I TALKED TO ONE OF 9 00:00:55.455 --> 00:01:02.562 THE MANAGERS AND SAID HOW MANY OF THESE GUYS WOULD YOU HIRE YEAR AFTER THEY GOT RELEASED AND HE SAID 85-90 PERCENT. 10 00:01:02.562 --> 00:01:09.202 WHEN I WALKED OUT THERE'S ANOTHER BUILDING UP TO THE SIDE AND I ASKED THE TOUR GUIDE WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THERE AND HE 11 00:01:09.202 --> 00:01:17.076 SAID IT WAS EMPTY AND IT CLICKED. A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER WE MADE THE DECISION TO PARTNER UP. 12 00:01:17.076 --> 00:01:25.418 >> THE GOAL OF THE PARTNERSHIP IS TO TEACH INMATES VALUABLE MANUFACTURING SKILLS THEY CAN USE WHEN THEY LEAVE PRISON AND 13 00:01:25.418 --> 00:01:34.427 THE NEW LOCATION INSIDE THE FACILITY MEANS THEY LEARN HOW TO BUILD TRUSSES LIKE THIS GUY. >> THEY ARE ACTUALLY BRINGING IN 14 00:01:34.427 --> 00:01:41.868 A MANUFACTURING COMPANY SO BRINGING IN STATE-OF-THE-ART EQUIPMENT AND MAKING AN INVESTMENT IN INDIANA. 15 00:01:41.868 --> 00:01:51.411 >> INVEST THEY DID. NEARLY ONE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS TURNING THE ONES EMPTY BUILDING INTO A FIRST RATE 16 00:01:51.411 --> 00:02:00.954 MANUFACTURING FACILITY ABOUT THE SIZE OF A FOOTBALL FIELD THAT WILL EMPLOY AROUND 30 INMATES BEGINNING NEXT MONTH. 17 00:02:00.954 --> 00:02:08.094 >> WILL THIS LOOK LIKE THE FACILITY THERE? >> THE EXACT SAME SET UP IN SAME EVERYTHING. 18 00:02:08.094 --> 00:02:18.538 THEY LEARN HOW TO BUILD WALLS AND TRUSSES AND IT WILL EXPAND THAT TRAINING PROGRAM TO FRAMING CARPENTRY SO ACTUALLY HOW TO 19 00:02:18.538 --> 00:02:23.443 THEN INSTALL WHAT THEY HAVE BUILT AND STAND THEM UP IN THE FIELD AND PUT THEM TOGETHER BUILD A HOUSE. 20 00:02:23.443 --> 00:02:32.085 >> WHEN YOU WALK IN THAT FACILITY YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW YOU ARE BEHIND THE WALL IN A MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON SETTING. 21 00:02:32.085 --> 00:02:40.360 IT HAS THE MOST MODERN TECHNOLOGY INSIDE IT TO BUILD THE TRUST COMPONENTS AND IT GIVES THEM A SENSE OF FREEDOM. 22 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:47.967 >> ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES IS FINDING A STRONG WORKFORCE THAT HAS GOOD WORK ETHIC AND THESE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE 23 00:02:47.967 --> 00:02:54.107 OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO WORK EVERY DAY THE ALTERNATIVE IS SITTING THERE AND WE LOOKED AT THAT DEDICATION THAT WE WILL 24 00:02:54.107 --> 00:03:01.514 HAVE FROM THE WORKFORCE AND WE SAW THAT ADVANTAGE. >> ANOTHER ADVANTAGE INCREASE PRODUCTION VOLUME. 25 00:03:01.514 --> 00:03:09.188 >> SO THIS FACILITY WILL HELP YOU OUT IN TERMS OF MEETING DEMAND. >> 100 PERCENT. 26 00:03:09.188 --> 00:03:17.096 >> IT WILL BASICALLY DOUBLE OUR CURRENT PRODUCTION CAPACITY SO IT WILL BE 8 MILLION INCAPACITY WE CAN RUN OUT OF THAT PLANT. 27 00:03:17.096 --> 00:03:24.304 >> WHEN YOU GIVE THE PEOPLE THE TOOLS THEY NEED WHILE INCARCERATED THEY HAVE A HIGH SUCCESS WEIGHT ONCE THEY'VE BEEN 28 00:03:24.304 --> 00:03:30.743 RELEASED AND IT CAN HELP BUSINESSES THAT ARE STRUGGLING TO FIND PEOPLE TO WORK. >> GIVING THEM THE OPPORTUNITY 29 00:03:30.743 --> 00:03:42.689 TO LEARN AND TO GO BACK TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD AND GET A GOOD JOB, BE A GOOD HUSBAND, A GOOD SUN, A GOOD FATHER FOR FUTURE 30 00:03:42.689 --> 00:03:51.631 GENERATIONS AND NOT END UP BACK IN PRISON. >> ANOTHER LIFELINE IS PURPOSEFUL DESIGN IN 31 00:03:51.631 --> 00:04:02.108 INDIANAPOLIS. THE NONPROFIT WAS SOME PLACE WE VISITED THIS FALL. FROM HARD KNOCKS TO HANDMADE 32 00:04:02.108 --> 00:04:09.816 FURNITURE IT'S NOT JUST RE- HAVING LIVES IT'S BUILDING SOME OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY FURNITURE. 33 00:04:09.816 --> 00:04:18.491 >> CUSTOMER FURNITURE BEAUTIFUL HANDCRAFTED CUSTOM FIRM IS -- FURNITURE. MEN THAT HAVE BEEN THROUGH 34 00:04:18.491 --> 00:04:23.563 BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS AND HOMELESSNESS AND INCARCERATION AND THEY ARE READY TO GIVE LIFE ANOTHER SHOT. 35 00:04:23.563 --> 00:04:29.902 WE ARE BILLED STRENGTH INTO PEOPLE THEY ARE IN A WEAKENED SPOT. >> I WAS AN ADDICT, ALCOHOLIC 36 00:04:29.902 --> 00:04:37.543 AND BECAUSE OF THAT I ENDED UP IN PRISON. >> SALES FORCE TOWER NEARLY TOUCHES THE HEAVENS AND THE 37 00:04:37.543 --> 00:04:47.053 TALLEST SKYSCRAPER DOWNTOWN AND JUST SIX YEARS AGO 45-YEAR-OLD JESSE FOUND HIMSELF HOMELESS. SLEEPING ON THE PAVEMENT WITH 38 00:04:47.053 --> 00:04:54.494 NOTHING MORE THAN AN OUTSIDER LOOKING IN ON THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF ONE OF THE STATE'S LARGEST TECH EMPLOYERS. 39 00:04:54.494 --> 00:05:01.300 LITTLE DID HE KNOW THEN A MAN NAMED DAVID PALMER WOULD CHANGE EVERYTHING. >> DAVID CALLED ME UP AND ASKED 40 00:05:01.300 --> 00:05:07.907 ME TO COME IN. IT WAS A WOOD SHOP AND I LISTEN TO EVERYTHING I WAS TAUGHT AND TOLD AND MOVED FORWARD. 41 00:05:07.907 --> 00:05:13.413 ALL I KNOW HOW TO DO WAS READ A TAPE MEASURE. I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO BUILD ANYTHING. 42 00:05:13.413 --> 00:05:21.621 >> THAT WOULD SOON CHANGE. SINCE WORKING FOR PURPOSEFUL DESIGN HE HAS COMPLETELY CHANGED HIS LIFE AROUND GETTING MARRIED 43 00:05:21.621 --> 00:05:30.863 AND HAVING A CHILD. >> I'M NO LONGER AN ALCOHOLIC CAN NO LONGER A DRUG ADDICT. I HAVE MYSELF A WIFE THAT MAKES 44 00:05:30.863 --> 00:05:37.503 SURE THAT I AM STRAIGHT AND NARROW AND DOING WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING BECAUSE I'M NOT LIVING FOR ME ANYMORE, BUT 45 00:05:37.503 --> 00:05:48.047 FOR HER AND MY SON. >> THE FURNITURE IS IN THE SALESFORCE TOWER AND IT WAS ADMIRING THE FURNITURE AND HE 46 00:05:48.047 --> 00:05:56.889 KNEW WHERE IT CAME FROM AND WHO MADE IT AND HE SAID THIS: I'S AMAZING THAT THE BEAUTIFUL FURNITURE IN THIS TOWER WAS MADE 47 00:05:56.889 --> 00:06:06.265 BY MEN WHO USED TO BE HOMELESS IN FRONT OF THE TOWER. >> SINCE OPENING IN 2013 THEY HAVE GROSSED OVER $5.5 MILLION 48 00:06:06.265 --> 00:06:15.775 IN SALES AND THE CLIENTS INCLUDE BIG-TIME NAMES LIKE ELI LILLY, SALESFORCE AND THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN INDY TO NAME A FEW. 49 00:06:15.775 --> 00:06:22.515 >> A LOT HAS TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT WE ARE WORKING HERE AND THEY HAVE TO LEARN DISCIPLINE AND RESPONSIBILITY AND SHOW UP 50 00:06:22.515 --> 00:06:32.391 ON TIME WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE AND LEARN NEW SKILLS. >> CRAFTSMANSHIP SKILLS ARE FAR FROM A REQUIREMENT JUST ASK THIS 51 00:06:32.391 --> 00:06:40.767 24-YEAR-OLD WHO CAME TO PURPOSEFUL DESIGN THROUGH THE MISSION. >> I HAD ZERO INTEREST AND 52 00:06:40.767 --> 00:06:45.371 EXPERIENCE. >> HE LEARNED ON THE JOB. >> IT'S AMAZING. THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO 53 00:06:45.371 --> 00:06:46.372 ME SINCE I MOVED HERE FOR SURE.