There are a number of efforts by a wide variety of groups to help ensure that the circumstances that led people into the criminal justice system can be changed for them so that they can find a way out. One of those initiatives was just recently begun a volunteer educator at the Illinois Youth Center, George Jenkins. Jenkins proposed that integrating advanced manufacturing technologies into the current vocational education offerings would provide inmates with a set of valuable skills that just might help them to stand on their own after release. There are a number of special considerations that go along with using 3D printers in correctional facilities, but the group has gotten permission to proceed with this innovative approach to prisoner rehabilitation. Check out more details in the full article: http://3dprint.com/32299/3d-printing-educates-inmates/ ‎


Below is a photo of George Jenkins at work on a 3D printer: