Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
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Also referred as UNICOR (short for UNIque CORporation),[1] the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. is a wholly owned government corporation that provides work opportunities and job training to inmates of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons. The operational costs and the cost of machinery and equipment for UNICOR are funded by sales to federal government agencies. Buildings and land are furnished by the Bureau of Prisons from appropriated funds. In the 2005 fiscal year UNICOR employed over 19,000 inmates and had net sales of $765 million.[2]
[edit] In Popular Culture
In Fox's Prison Break, Michael Scofield and seven other inmates at the fictional Fox River State Penitentiary use PI as a means of digging a hole in a guard break room for a prison escape, after deliberately setting it on fire so that PI would be assigned to renovate the room.
