Forget license plates — prisoners these days are wrangling for jobs with a touch more sophistication.

In the newly released Season 3 of Netflix’s hit show “Orange Is the New Black,” prisoners compete with one another in Episode 5’s “Fake It Till You Fake It Some More” for an unknown job that pays $1 an hour — which turns out to be making panties.

The show wasn’t too far off the mark. In the 1990s, 35 female South Carolina inmates were hired by subcontractor Third Generation to sew lingerie for Victoria’s Secret and JCPenney.

What other products are handcrafted by the prison industrial complex’s finest? Here’s a sample of how some inmates are spending their time behind bars.

Wartime wears

Federal Prison Industries, better known as Unicor, enlists prisoners at 89 different factories across the country to create uniforms, bedding, shoes, helmets and flak vests for the United States military. Ironically, prisoners are also responsible for making the paper targets that military and law enforcement use for firearm training.

Unicor employees are also responsible for creating everyday products for civilians, such as office furniture, batteries, extension cords, surge protectors, solar panels, safety goggles, sheets and blankets and, yes, license plates.

Books for the blind

More than 800 inmates in 26 different states are in charge of producing reading materials for K-12 students — but these aren’t typical textbooks. The National Prison Braille Network is responsible for transcribing reading materials into Braille products for the blind. All prisoners involved in the program are certified by the Library of Congress.

Fruits of their labor

Florida’s Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE) trains 4,000 inmates in the Sunshine State to produce and provide more than 3,000 products and services — including harvesting the state’s famous oranges, which account for 74 percent of the country’s supply.

Inmates at PRIDE Citrus are certified by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences and receive training in equipment operation, machine maintenance and repair, diesel and gas mechanics, welding, low-volume irrigation, fertilizer/pesticide application, scouting and pest identification, grove safety, tree planting and care and harvesting.

Other agriculture units employed through PRIDE include sugar cane, cattle and land management.

Crafty tchotchke

San Quentin — which currently houses infamous criminals such as Scott Peterson, Randy Kraft and Charles Ng — allows its prisoners to craft knickknacks and put them up for sale at the prison’s gift shop. Typical offerings include music boxes, drawings, paintings and greeting cards. Prisoners keep any profits from sold items, while 10 percent of the sale goes to the General Inmate Fund, which pays for movies and other entertainment for the general population.

Rock the boat

Colorado Correctional Industries (CCI) oversees approximately 60 inmate work programs, including making everything from file cabinets to office chairs. The most unexpected offerings, however, are fiberglass and redwood canoes.

Old college try

Next time you have nightmares about your days studying furiously at your dormitory desk, keep in mind there’s a good chance your shoddy furniture was crafted by an inmate. Prisoners at CCI are also responsible for producing both single and bunk beds, wardrobes and those extra-long twin mattresses.

Call me, maybe

Unicor also employs inmates as call-center representatives, which it dubs “the best kept secret in outsourcing.” Companies can hire Unicor employees for sales, telemarketing and customer-service-related jobs — mostly for the travel sector. In 1994, a contractor for Jack Metcalf, a GOP congressional candidate, hired prisoners from Washington state to call and remind voters that he was pro-death-penalty. Awkward.