Exactly! Many companies use prison labor and pay cents or dollars per hour. Companies make out, state prison systems make out, prisoners make out. Prisoners get to keep whatever they make and if you are out of circulation for a few years, you can pocket a few thousand when you walk. It's a win-win-win arrangement. So why not a training experience for a University?
IF the KSUbars are made in Manhattan, Kansas and shipped to AAPT in Shawnee for wrapping only, this would present several problems.
The largest of which is control.
Who decides how many are made and when? When the students are out of school does production shut down? Does AAPT now depend upon an off-site third party for ALL product? Not a "vendor" thus no control. Little leverage.