Federal Prison Industries

Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
Trade name	UNICOR
Company type	State-owned enterprise
Industry	Penal labor
Founded	June 23, 1934
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Key people	David D. Spears, Chairman; Donald R. Elliott, Vice Chairman
Revenue	$531,453,000 (2019)
Net income	$61,166,000 (2019)
Owner	Federal Bureau of Prisons
Number of employees	10,896 (2016)
Website	www.unicor.gov

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 - 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 CRS was 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).
^ "BOP: UNICOR". www.bop.gov. 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.

[1] "UNICOR - FAQs: General". Unicor.gov. Archived from the original on 2 May 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2017.

[2] "UNICOR - Board of Directors". Unicor.gov. Archived from the original on 14 September 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2017.

[3] "FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INC. : Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Management Report" (PDF). Unicor.gov. Retrieved 30 January 2020.

[CRS-4] Cite error: The named reference CRS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[ReferenceA-5] 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).

[:2-6] "BOP: UNICOR". www.bop.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-31.

[:12-7] 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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