Iowa prisons use a staggering 900,000 rolls of toilet paper per year.  Even at bulk prices for dirt-cheap single-ply paper, the state of Iowa spends an incredible amount per year on toilet paper.  As it turns out, if Iowa turned the manufacture and processing of toilet paper over to an inmate-run toilet-paper factory, the state would save $100,000 per year and create jobs for 50 inmates.  In that spirit, Iowa prisons are starting a trial program to make their own toilet paper.

Granted, the legislature has to approve the measure, but right now at two Iowa prisons, prisoners are testing TP made by prisoners in Missouri.  While the roll isn’t exactly quilted softness, according to Anamosa State Prison associate warden Al Reiter says it’s perfectly acceptable paper under state prison guidelines.  If the program meets approval, the director of Iowa Prison Industries, Roger Baysden, says Iowa inmates could start rolling their own toilet paper by next year.

It doesn’t have to be fancy, it’s just got to get the job done.

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