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Federal Prison Industries
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| UNICOR | |
| Company type | State-owned enterprise |
| Industry | Penal labor |
| Founded | June 23, 1934[1] |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Key people | David D. Spears, Chairman Donald R. Elliott, Vice Chairman[2] |
| Revenue | $531,453,000 (2019) |
| $61,166,000[3] (2019) | |
| Owner | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Number of employees | 10,896 (2016) |
| Website | www |
Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI), doing business as UNICOR (stylized as unicor) since 1977, is a corporation wholly owned by the United States government. It was created in 1934 as a prison labor program within the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Under US federal law, all physically abled inmates who are not a security risk or have a health exception are required to work, either for UNICOR or at some other prison job.[4][5] As of 2021, inmates earned between $0.23 to $1.15 per hour.[6]
As a "mandatory source" for federal departments (having priority over all other sources, including JWOD sources from blind or severely disabled persons), FPI receives priority in any purchases of its products.[7]
UNICOR is entirely self-sustaining and has no cost to US taxpayers.[6]
- ^ "UNICOR - FAQs: General". Unicor.gov. Archived from the original on 2 May 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
- ^ "UNICOR - Board of Directors". Unicor.gov. Archived from the original on 14 September 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
- ^ "FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INC. : Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Management Report" (PDF). Unicor.gov. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
CRSwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Title XXIX, §2905 of the Crime Control Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-647) required that all offenders in federal prisons must work (the act permitted limitations to this rule on security and health-related grounds).
- ^ a b "BOP: UNICOR". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
- ^ Kim, Whizy. "White Supremacists Attacked The Capitol. Now, Prison Labor Will Clean Up The Mess". www.refinery29.com. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
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