With a shortage of hand sanitizer due to coronavirus, NY is making its own with prison labor
New York is making its own hand sanitizer to distribute to schools, governments, prisons and some communities affected by the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
With a shortage of hand sanitizer due to the illness and the growing cost of buying it, New York is turning to its state-owned business run in its prison system to produce more than 100,000 gallons of week of hand sanitizer, called NYS Clean.
“It’s much cheaper for us to make it ourselves than for us to buy it on the open market,” Cuomo said at a press briefing Monday as the coronavirus cases in New York surged to 142, the most in the nation and slightly more than the state of Washington.
Cuomo said the scent is like a “floral bouquet” and will be produced less expensively through CorCraft, the state’s prison-run business, than if the state bought it.
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