Reply #1: "insourcing"(prison industry)...small business can NOT compete ...links [View All]

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how can we compete with inmates who are paid $.27-$.57 an hr????
Drug War Very Effective—At Bloating Police, Prison 'Industries'
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2001/libe109-20010219-02.html


Testimony of the Honorable Mac Collins (GA-03)
Before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
http://edworkforce.house.gov/hearings/105th/oi/prison8598/collins.htm
August 5, 1998

Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to testify before this subcommittee today. I also greatly appreciate your working with me over the last two years, as well as with Representatives Frank and Maloney, to craft legislation to protect American small businesses and workers from the predatory tactics of Federal Prison Industries. I believe that it is critical for Members to be aware of not only the competitive advantages granted under the law to Federal Prison Industries, but also the many ways in which FPI has abused the powers granted under its authorizing statute. While the rehabilitative goals of the Bureau of Prisons are laudable and universally supported, those goals should never be achieved at the expense of small businesses and law-abiding American workers.

Just over two years ago, the owner of General Engineering Service, Incorporated, a small business that formerly resided in the Third District of Georgia, Mr. Tim Graves, brought to my attention FPI's illegal expansion into the missile shipping container market. Mr. Graves predicted that if left unchecked, FPI's illegal expansion into this market would result in the closure of his business and the loss of over 150 jobs in Clayton County, Georgia. Unfortunately, Mr. Graves predictions proved extremely accurate, and General Engineering Service has now shut its doors. I believe that the behavior of FPI relative to this incident demonstrates both the weaknesses of current law and the anti-business, anti-worker sentiment that has guided FPI to attack the livelihood


Prison Industry official website
http://www.unicor.gov/index.cfm

http://www.pia.ca.gov/piawebdev/index.html

Prison Labor Links http://www.prisonactivist.org/prison-labor/

What's here?

Links to all of the state-owned prison industry operations in the U.S., state by state - see what they are saying! Also, compiled here are direct links to all of the state Department of Corrections that have an on-line presence. Finally, there is a valuable collection of links to other information banks and articles investigating the role of prison industry in the prison industrial complex.


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State-Owned Prison Industries

Information provided by the state agencies themselves.
UNICOR - Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
Alabama Correctional Industries
Alaska Correctional Industries - contact info only
Arizona Correctional Industries
Arkansas Correctional Industries
California Prison Industry Authority
California Joint Ventures Program - private corporations purchasing prison labor from the state
Colorado: Juniper Valley Products
Connecticut Prison Industries
Florida Prison Industry Enhancement program
Florida: PRIDE Enterprises
Georgia
Idaho Correctional Industries - empty page as of 4/14/99
Illinois Correctional Industries
Iowa
Kentucky Correctional Industries - "Kentucky's Best Kept Secret"
Maryland State Use Industries
Massachusetts Correctional Industries - MassCor
Michigan State Industries
Minnesota MINNCOR
Mississippi Prison Industries Corp.
Missou ri Vocational Enterprises
Montana Correctional Enterprises
New Hampshire Correctional Industries
New Jersey DEPTCOR - "And you thought we only made license plates."
New Mexico Correctional Industries
New York Corcraft
Nevada Silver State Industries
North Carolina Correction Enterprices
North Dakota Rough Rider Industries
Ohio Prison Industries
Oklahoma State Industries
Oregon Corrections Industries Programs
Pennsylvania Correctional Industries
Rhode Island Correctional Industries
South Carolina Prison Industries
South Dakota Prison Industries
Tennessee TRICOR
Texas Correctional Industries
Utah Correctional Industries
Virginia Correctional Enterprises
Washington State Correctional Industries