
In the Abai region, a workshop for the manufacture of upholstered furniture was opened in a medium-security institution.
The workshop accepts more than 2-3 orders per week, one order is completed about 15 days. In addition to upholstered furniture, the workshop produces about 15 tables and chairs a week.
To date, 37 convicts work here, but within two months it is planned to employ ten more people. The wages of convicts are piecework.
"I've been serving my sentence for about two years. After I was imprisoned, my wife filed for divorce, now I am paying alimony to our daughter, who is three years old. Here I found a job that I liked. I never thought at large that I would learn how to make furniture, at first it was hard, but now I like my work. After four years, I have the end of my term. Having been released, I want to try to open my workshop and return my family, - the convict shared.
In total, the institution has 10 individual entrepreneurs and one LLP, which produce toilet paper, are engaged in the breeding of quail, outcast