About Us

Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI) – a unique, self-funded, 40-year-old business within the Arizona Department of Corrections – works nearly 2,000 inmates at any given time. Working in safe, positive work and learning environments, inmates gain skills that will help them secure employment upon their release — many in highly skilled trades. The compensation inmates earn at – what for many are – their first paid jobs, go toward savings for their release, room and board offsets, child support and restitution funds.