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- Prison Labor As A Money Making Enterprise
- Both the Federal Government and some states use the readily available labor force of people in their prison systems to do contract work. In fact for the U.S. government contracts the Federal Prison Industry FPI company has priority for contracts. Often they can undercut a normal company as...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
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- Prison Industry Continues Its Shakeup
- Over the last few decades an industry has developed around private contractors managing prisons for states and localities. The argument for contracting this out is as in most cases to save money. There is also an industry related to the Federal and State prison systems in that they...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Competition eyed for prison industry: Minimum wage touted for convicts.(Nation)
- Federal Prison Industries will have to compete with the private sector and pay inmates the minimum wage if new legislation before the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime is approved. The subcommittee convened hearings on the Prison Industries Reform Act of 1999 yesterday....
- Research articles 1999-08-06
- U.S. Manufacturers Say Prison Industry Cuts into Business.(Originated from Detroit Free Press)
- WASHINGTON--Nov. 10--Making license plates was one thing. But now that inmates at all 72 federal prisons are crafting everything from pajamas to paint brushes to missile parts, U.S. manufacturers complain they're stealing jobs and profits. Those...
- Research articles 1997-11-10
- Fed prison work program needs its own watchdog.(Produces plastics and electronics and competes w/ private industry)(Brief Article)
- Most processors may not know it, but one of their biggest competitors just might be the federal government. Federal Prison Industries Inc., operating under the trade name Unicor, generated nearly $134 million in sales under its plastics and electr Most processors may not...
- Research articles 2002-03-04
- Former Missouri lawmaker sentenced to prison
- Former state Rep. Nathan Cooper was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison on felony fraud charges that he steered temporary work visas to clients in the trucking industry. Cooper, a Cape Girardeau Republican, also faces two years of supervised release when he is freed in...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- Former Missouri lawmaker sentenced to prison
- Former state Rep. Nathan Cooper was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison on felony fraud charges that he steered temporary work visas to clients in the trucking industry. Cooper, a Cape Girardeau Republican, also faces two years of supervised release when he is freed in 2009, and he...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- Michigan Furniture Makers Lose Business to Prison Products, Senator Says. (Originated from Detroit Free Press)
- DETROIT--Jul. 21--Michigan's struggling office furniture makers are losing contracts and jobs to a growing throng of federal prisoners who make furniture and other products for the government, U.S. Sen. Donald Riegle contends. On the eve of a national conference on prison industry issues, the Michigan...
- Research articles 1993-07-20
- Former Missouri state Rep. Cooper gets 15-month prison term
- Former state Rep. Nathan Cooper was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison on felony fraud charges that he steered temporary work visas to clients in the trucking industry.
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- Ex-Intel engineer gets jail time - Guillermo Gaede is convicted of attempting to sell Intel microprocessor secrets to competitors - Industry Legal Issue
- San Jose, Calif.--Former Intel engineer Guillermo "Bill" Gaede was sentenced last week to 33 months in federal prison and slapped with a $1,000 fine for attempting to sell Intel microprocessor secrets to its competitors.
- Research articles 1996-07-01
- Senate approves measure limiting FPI's defense contract monopoly
- AS PART OF the Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2002, the U.S. Senate approved a measure eliminating Federal Prison Industry's monopoly over defense contracts. The provision will allow private companies to compete with FPI on all products.
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- Tough on white-collar crime.(Short message: around the wireless industry)
- The recent spate of telecom scandals in the US resulted in a handful of arrests, but those that do result in convictions will probably mean little jail time for offenders, and that in minimum-security prisons where doing time is relatively easy. (It used to be easier-before...
- Research articles 2004-12-15
- FPI's Defense contract monopoly abolished
- As part of the Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2002, the U.S. Congress approved a measure eliminating Federal Prison Industry's monopoly over defense contracts. The provision, signed into law by President Bush on Dec. 28, 2001, will allow private companies to compete with FPI on all products bid by...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- 8(a) contracts awarded.(ODOI Associates Inc.)(OMF Contractors Inc.)(North American Industry Classification System )
- MARYLAND ODOI ASSOCIATES INC., 7851 Belle Point Dr., Greenbelt, 20770--GSA/PBS for NAICS 233320 $29,502; GSA/PBS for NAICS 233320 $44,339 OMEN INC., 135 National Business Pkwy., Annapolis Junction, 20701--FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM $74,924 OMF CONTRACTORS INC., 10237 Southard Dr., Beltsville,...
- Research articles 2007-09-28
- Government Buys Spire Photovoltaic Module Production Facility
- The U.S. Federal Prison company, Unicor, purchased from Spire a complete photovoltaic module factory for about $54 million. BusinessWire carries the press release stating that the facility will be installed at the Federal Prison in Otisville, NY. Inmates will produce the modules for sale to other Federal...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Private Prisons: A Reliable American Growth Industry
- With the exception of the government's borrowing and spending activities, there are hardly any segments of the US economy that appear to have been inoculated against the recession which began in December 2007. There is one aspect of society however, that has continued to expand despite the difficult economic circumstances:...
- External links 2009-08-21
- CU TIPs Hat To Protection Industry
- NCPD FCU, a $300- million credit union chartered to serve the Nassau County Police Department, was granted a TIP charter to serve all federal, state, county and municipal employees in the police protection industry in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, NCUA said. That includes the FBI, state police,...
- Research articles 2005-07-18
- Iranian convicted on federal charges for air rage incident
- AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD An Iranian man accused of threatening to "kill all Americans" while onboard an Air Canada flight in September was convicted of federal charges by a jury on Thursday (6 December). Javid Naghani maintains that he never made the threat and...
- Research articles 2001-12-10
- Heery International
- Heery International and Bell Corp. have been selected by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to design and build a new $230 million federal correctional institution to be located in Berlin, N.H. The medium-security institution will house approximately 1,200 inmates in six housing units. It will include educational, vocational and prison...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Probe is over, but IRS still eyes apparel biz. (Irwin Feiner)
- Probe Is Over, But IRS Still Eyes Apparel Biz NEW YORK FNS -- In about three weeks, former apparel executive Irwin Feiner will slip behind bars at a federal prison to begin his 3-1/2-year sentence for not paying taxes on about $26 million earned through a phony-invoicing...
- Research articles 1988-05-05
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