{"id":1225,"date":"2011-06-06T10:55:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T10:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2011-06-06T10:55:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T10:55:53","slug":"inmates-help-produce-number-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/inmates-help-produce-number-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmates Help Produce Number Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>The 135 inmates who make license plates behind bars at Lebanon  Correctional Institution perked up when they heard last week that  lawmakers are considering ditching the front plate for motorists.<\/p>\n<p>The men, supervised by a staff of nine, crank out 300,000 pairs of plates annually. Starting salary is 21 cents an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Are they worried about \u201cunemployment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t affect  us at all,\u201d said Richard Custer, prison employee and tag shop supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>He explained in the manufacturing process, two matching plates are inked and pressed at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>If  Ohio becomes a one plate state, it will still take the same amount of  manpower to feed the machines, but the amount of materials used,  including metal and ink, would be reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will change how much we order and have around the shop,\u201d Custer said, noting shipping costs would also be reduced.<\/p>\n<p>The  prison has been manufacturing the state\u2019s license plates since 1964. It  is a source of pride for all involved, especially inmates .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 135 inmates who make license plates behind bars at Lebanon Correctional Institution perked up when they heard last week that lawmakers are considering ditching the front plate for motorists. The men, supervised by a staff of nine, crank out<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/inmates-help-produce-number-plates\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}