Federal Prison Industries
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Sep 26, 2026
Matthew CoxHOST
Yeah.
Matthew CoxHOST
Unless you're in Unicor for 10 years.
Jimmy DakinGUEST
And then sometimes they would give us a bonus.
Jimmy DakinGUEST
But what was good with that was is that I was only on my FRP payments.
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Jimmy DakinGUEST
And see, that's what I was saying.
Jimmy DakinGUEST
That's the type of guy he was with me.
Matthew CoxHOST
Did you ever get on to Unicor? I
Jimmy DakinGUEST
did.
Kevin JansHOST
GSA schedules, uh, government-wide contracts, that kind of stuff, but that is a required source.
Paul SchauerHOST
You also have to consider the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, which is a self-sustained, wholly-owned government corporation owned by the District of Columbia.
Paul SchauerHOST
I know that because I read that right out of the FAR.
Kevin JansHOST
[laughs] I was gonna say, it sounds like you read that.
Ellie SewellHOST
Then we hit the statutory mandatory sources.
Ellie SewellHOST
For supplies, it's the Federal Prison Industries, FPI, also known as UNICOR, and then the AbilityOne Program, which many of us are familiar with.
Ed CallahanHOST
Very familiar with, but I've also heard that they can be tricky on defense clients.
Ellie SewellHOST
They can be.
Ellie SewellHOST
Then we hit the statutory mandatory sources.
Ellie SewellHOST
For supplies, it's the Federal Prison Industries, FPI, also known as UNICOR, and then the AbilityOne program, which many of us are familiar with.
Ed CallahanHOST
Very familiar with, but I've also heard that they can be tricky on defense clients.
Ellie SewellHOST
They can be.
Zachary CrockettHOST
Federal prisons have their own system for taking advantage of cheap labor.
Zachary CrockettHOST
The government-owned Federal Prison Industries, or FPI, has more than 60 work facilities across the country.
Zachary CrockettHOST
It manufactures around 300 products: boots, jumpsuits, tools, medical supplies, body armor, and even electronic components for guided missiles, which it sells to the Department of Defense.
Zachary CrockettHOST
But prisoners don't just do work for the government.