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 wholely 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 the products that it offers.^[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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