[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5081 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5081

  To provide for a demonstration project by Federal Prison Industries.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 1994

  Mr. Hughes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for a demonstration project by Federal Prison Industries.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SEC.   . PRISON INDUSTRIES DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 1761 of title 18, United 
States Code--
            (1) Federal Prison Industries shall, not later than 
        December 1, 1995, establish a demonstration project in which 
        prisoners are paid wages at rates, not less than the Federal 
        minimum wage applicable for similar work done by free labor, to 
        engage in the production of goods, of a type currently made 
        primarily in foreign countries, which may be sold domestically 
        to the general public at market prices; and
            (2) the Director of the Bureau of Prisons may deduct from 
        any wages paid to a prisoner that is equal to or in excess of 
        the legal minimum wage paid to free laborers engaged in the 
        same sort of work at the place where the prisoner's work is 
        done an amount, not to exceed 80 percent of the wages, the 
        Director determines will defray the costs to the United States 
        associated with the imprisonment of that prisoner.
    (b) Report to Congress.--Not later than two years after the 
demonstration project under subsection (a) is begun, Federal Prison 
Industries and the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall jointly 
report to Congress on the demonstration project, including a 
description of its economic viability, and make recommendations as to 
whether such project should be continued or expanded.

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