[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 166 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 166

To express the sense of the Senate that all able-bodied Federal prison 
   inmates should work and that the Attorney General shall submit to 
  Congress a report describing a strategy for employing more Federal 
                            prison inmates.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            November 16 (legislative day, November 2), 1993

Mr. Brown submitted the following resolution; which was referred in the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
To express the sense of the Senate that all able-bodied Federal prison 
   inmates should work and that the Attorney General shall submit to 
  Congress a report describing a strategy for employing more Federal 
                            prison inmates.

    Resolved, 

SECTION 1. SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT ABLE-BODIED CONVICTED FELONS IN THE 
              FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM SHOULD WORK AND THAT THE ATTORNEY 
              GENERAL SHALL SUBMIT TO CONGRESS A REPORT DESCRIBING A 
              STRATEGY FOR EMPLOYING MORE FEDERAL PRISON INMATES.

    (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--
            (1) Federal Prison Industries was created by Congress in 
        1934 as a wholly owned, nonprofit government corporation 
        directed to train and employ Federal prisoners;
            (2) traditionally, one-half of the Federal prison inmates 
        had meaningful prison jobs; now, with the increasing prison 
        population, less than one-quarter are employed in prison 
        industry positions; and
            (3) expansion the product lines and services of Federal 
        Prison Industries beyond its traditional lines of business will 
        enable more Federal prison inmates to work, and such expansion 
        must occur so as to minimize any adverse impact on the private 
        sector and labor.
            (b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
            (1) all able-bodied Federal prison inmates should work;
            (2) in an effort to achieve the goal of full Federal prison 
        inmate employment, the Attorney General, in consultation with 
        the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, the Secretary of Labor, 
        the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of the General 
        Services Administration, and the private sector and labor, 
        shall submit a report to Congress not later than March 31, 
        1994, that describes a strategy for employing more Federal 
        prison inmates;
            (3) the report shall--
                  (A) contain a review of existing lines of business of 
                Federal Prison Industries;
                  (B) consider the findings and recommendations of the 
                final report of the Summit on Federal Prison Industries 
                (June 1992-July 1993); and
                  (C) make recommendations for legislation and changes 
                in existing law that may be necessary for the Federal 
                Prison Industries to employ more Federal prison 
                inmates; and
          (4) the report shall focus on--
                  (A) the creation of new job opportunities for Federal 
                prison inmates;
                  (B) the degree to which any expansion of lines of 
                business of Federal Prison Industries may adversely 
                affect the private sector or displace domestic labor; 
                and
                  (C) the degree to which opportunities for partnership 
                between Federal Prison Industries and small business 
                can be fostered.

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