Flexsor Services
Correctional Industries Sourcing Partner
Flexsor Services has relationships with multiple Correctional Industries operations, making it easier for small and medium-size businesses to work with prison factories.
Since 1979, major corporations and government agencies have been taking advantage of these prison production operations. Fortune 100 Companies, the Dept. of Defense, and supplier companies across all industries have embraced the financial, as well as social benefits, available using prison factories nationwide.
About
Build Something Bigger For Less
Flexsor Services is a national partner helping private industries scale smarter and faster. We specialize in communication, sourcing and coordination between business clients and correctional industries - a cost-effective workforce solution.
Whether you’re launching, scaling, or optimizing, Flexsor Services delivers the workforce you need to succeed - at a fraction of the traditional cost. This approach is ideal for businesses looking to expand quickly and needing reliable production support.
With recent US tariffs on imports, companies need new options to maintain costs.
Correctional Industries factories offer your company a unique onshore option for your outsourced contracts and projects that are beyond your stateside capacity. Additionally, this domestic capacity for quality work can be used to provide facilities and labor in a secure environment to pursue new contracts that require domestic production.
Benefits
Competitive Labor Rate with Built-in Payroll Overhead and Rent
- Hourly labor rate includes Building Rent and traditional employee costs such as healthcare, unemployment and workers’ compensation insurance.
- Factories and service centers can be strategically located in facilities close to your customers, raw material suppliers, and within advantageous shipping regions.
- A wide variety of capabilities are available including assembly, fabricating, repair/refurbish, light manufacturing, powder coat painting, cut and sew, and call centers.
- This dependable workforce can be designed to manage regular production as well as seasonal, peak load or part-time scheduling to meet your client and customer demands.
Work Profile
Ideal Situations
- Work that is labor intensive and has repetitive tasks
- 2,500 to 60,000 square feet of space (production, warehouse, office)
- May require workstations
- Minimum 15 to 25 workers within 6 months
- Specialized equipment provided by partner
Capabilities
Service work like call center, disassembly, scanning, sorting, pick/pack/ship, small part remanufacture is the easiest to scale and fastest to get up and running.
- Repetitive tasks, labor intensive
- Manufacture and assemble of parts used for repair, replacement, remanufacturing, rebuilding are priced at the service labor rate, up to 40% less than the prevailing manufacturing wages
- Non-core (disassembly, sorting, pick/pack/ship, kitting)
- Remanufacturing (brakes, axles, transmissions, starters, alternators, generators)
- Call center (inbound or outbound, verification)
- Mature activities (long term contract work that has become routine)
- 3rd tier work (wiring harness assembly)
- Complete wood shop services
General Categories
- Metal work (tube bending, welding, cutting, assembly)
- Woodworking (assemblies, cabinets, fixtures, furniture)
- Remanufacturing (auto/heavy equipment, office workstations)
- Disassembly (electronics for disposal, anything for cleaning and repair)
- Assembly (wire harness, sub assemblies, commodity assembly)
- Cut and Sew (auto upholstery, clothing, silk screen)
- Powder coat painting
- Scanning, Copying
- Call Center