Jobs that aren't already lost have to be negotiated since this is the lowest unemployment rate we've had in 20 years. We're trying to get more work because there's more people in prison. I think it's a fair system. The letter noted that FPI operates a chain of almost 100 factories and employs more than 17,000 inmates around the country. Mr. Nolan appeared before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in August 1998.
Prisoners have to be gainfully employed.
They have to be responsible for participation in the economic life of the nation. Mr. Walker plans to shed light on the plight of prisons and prison justice issues with a caravan that will go across the country stopping at urban and rural centers in the fall. He plans also to go to those communities that are economically dependent on prisons. The last stop will be Washington, D.C. where the caravan members will call on Congress to change the prisons. His organization is reaching to other groups to try to build consensus and coalition.