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*[http://www.unicor.gov/ UNICOR] |
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*[http://www.hoovers.com/unicor/--ID__43053--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml?cm_ven=PAID&cm_cat=OVR&cm_pla=CON&cm_ite=unicor Hoover's Corporate Profile] |
*[http://www.hoovers.com/unicor/--ID__43053--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml?cm_ven=PAID&cm_cat=OVR&cm_pla=CON&cm_ite=unicor Hoover's Corporate Profile] |
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*[http://www.dcdave.com/article1/080997.html David Martin, "Federal Prison Industries: Occupational Training or Slave Labor?"] |
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Revision as of 13:05, 24 February 2007
Also referred as UNICOR (short for UNIque CORporation),[1] the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. is a wholly owned government corporation that provides work opportunities and job training to inmates of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons. The program requires no federal funding because its sales, mostly to government agencies, cover all of its costs. In the 2005 fiscal year it employed over 19,000 inmates and had net sales of $765 million.[2]
In Popular Culture
In Fox's Prison Break, Michael Scofield and seven other inmates at the fictional Fox River State Penitentiary use PI as a means of digging a hole in a guard break room for a prison escape, after deliberately setting it on fire so that PI would be assigned to renovate the room.