Legal Reform of Prison Industries: New Opportunities for Marketing Managers

Civilly Dead: The Ideological and Political Struggle over Penal Slavery in The United States Since the 19th Century

“…The bill, entitled The Federal Criminal Justice System Reorganization Act, aimed to promote the expansion of Federal prison industries, byallowing Federal Prison Industries (FPI) to "contract with businesses, corporations, or other private groups to establish factories or projects within federal prison walls or nearby for the purpose of employing and training offenders." Percy emphasized the need for participation in FPI to be voluntary and for inmates working for FPI to be paid prevailing market wages 164. Percy's focus on the market expansion of private industries and the growth of penal labor programs was entirely consistent with his political affiliation as a free market, Free Labor republican.…”