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Michigan Furniture Makers Lose Business to Prison Products, Senator Says. (Originated from Detroit Free Press)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 1993 by Shellum, Bernie
DETROIT--Jul. 21--Michigan's struggling office furniture makers are losing contracts and jobs to a growing throng of federal prisoners who make furniture and other products for the government, U.S. Sen. Donald Riegle contends.
On the eve of a national conference on prison industry issues, the Michigan Democrat is campaigning to persuade Attorney General Janet Reno to encourage federal prisons to supply services, rather than make products that compete with companies such as Zeeland-based Herman Miller Inc., Grand Rapids-based Steelcase Inc. and Holland-based Haworth Inc.
The conference, the result of a 1992 congressional study by the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche, will take place Thursday and Friday in Washington.
In a July 7 letter to Reno,...
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