In addition to providing confinement housing, food service, and medical care, the correctional facility offers education, vocational training, and work opportunities within the prison.

Inmates at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution produce Prison Blues garments, an internationally marketed clothing line.

The faith-based programs help inmates make peace with their past and search for personal meaning in their life.

The cost of tuition, textbooks, and supplies are covered by donations from local churches, civic groups, foundations, and members of the public.

In addition, it provides laundry cleaning services to the Pendleton's convention center, the city's fire department, the local high school, and neighboring businesses.

Other inmate work opportunities include the prison food service, clerical job, and facility maintenance.

[10] Today, the Prison Blues brand is a successful commercial product line sold across the United States and internationally.

Once hired, an inmate must continue to demonstrate good behavior and produce garments that meet the Prison Blues standard of quality.

Inmates working in the Prison Blues factory are paid prevailing private sector wages, of which they receive twenty percent.

Eighty percent of their salary is returned to the state to help cover the cost of incarceration, pay victim restitution, and provide family support.

The inmate can save the remaining amount or use it to provide additional family support, take college courses, or purchase items at the prison store.