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Strength Tech, Inc., a family owned and operated mail order institutional weight lifting equipment manufacturer, was founded in 1982 by Gary Polson. He and his wife, Lora, provide innovative, unique, problem solving products for high schools, colleges, military bases, and prisons. Gary invented and patented the OKIE GRIP barbell collar (our first product). Our foam and vinyl upholstery products are in use in hundreds of correctional institutions around the country.
The National Correctional Recreation Association (NCRA) was founded in 1966 by a small group of correctional recreation leaders. These recreation leaders were largely custody officers who had displayed an interest in sports. Finding themselves assigned to the gym and yard areas, directing programs in weight lifting, baseball, and football, they banded together for mutual support and education.
The primary purpose of this page is to provide a reservoir of information to those involved in making decisions regarding the banning of weight lifting in prisons. Information about the issues, media coverage of the issues, laws and bills, incidents, and many other aspects of weight lifting in prison are covered. We have tried to provide an unbiased view of the issue and hope this material will help those in decision making positions make better decisions by providing them with a wide range of data and a list of the many specific issues involved.
We provide this bibliography to encourage dissemination of these materials and to assist further research in Correctional Recreation. If you find any additional research or media clips on correctional recreation, prison recreation, prison sports or jail recreation not listed here, please send a copy of it to Strength Tech, Inc. P.O. Box 1381 Stillwater OK 74076 and we will post them. If you do not have a copy of it, just email us the basic information and we will find it.
We manufacture weightlifting accesories and upholstery supplies for recovering weight lifting equipment. Our products are primarily used by prisons, high schools, colleges, military bases and professional sports teams.
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Company contacts
- Gary Polson
- Owner