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Federal Prison Industries: Actions Needed to Evaluate Program Effectiveness

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 29, 2020
Release Date July 29, 2020
Report No. GAO-20-505
Summary:

Federal Prison Industries is a government-owned corporation that seeks to provide marketable job skills to inmates. It sells inmate-produced goods and services, mostly to federal agencies. A new law in 2018 began to allow these goods/services to be sold to nonprofits and the District of Columbia as well.

The goal of this program is to help inmates in their reentry into society. However, we found that the Bureau of Prisons—which manages this program—has not reviewed its impact on recidivism (a person's relapse into criminal behavior) in over 2 decades. We recommended that the Bureau evaluate the program and set a recidivism reduction goal.

Inmate welding as part of Federal Prison Industry operations

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