NASHVILLE (AP) — Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America is collaborating with a local non-profit organization to help provide artificial limbs to amputees in the West African country of Ghana.

The private prison company will work with Standing With Hope to launch a work program for inmates to disassemble donated prosthetic limbs and recycle key components needed for fabricating new legs for amputees.

Standing for Hope president Peter Rosenberger says the program will be a more effective way to handle the limbs the organization receives from all over the country.

Dennis Bradby is vice president of inmate programs at Corrections Corporation of America. He says he's glad to participate "knowing that amputees ... will be equipped to walk as a direct result of this program."