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(2) MATTERS TO BE ASSESSED.—In addition to 
such other matters as the Comptroller General 
deems appropriate, the assessment shall include— 
(A) efforts to recruit private for-profit 
business entities to participate; 
(B) the quality of training provided to in-
mates; 
(C) the amounts and types of products and 
services that have been produced incident to the 
work-based training programs; 
(D) the types of worksite arrangement that 
encourage business concerns to voluntarily enter 
into such partnerships; 
(E) the extent and manner of the partici-
pation of supervisory, quality assurance, and 
other management employees of the partici-
pating business entity in worksites within cor-
rectional facilities of various levels of security; 
(F) the extent of the facilities, utilities, 
equipment, and personnel (other than security 
personnel) provided by the host correctional 
agency, and extent to which such resources are 
provided on a nonreimbursable basis; 
(G) the rates of wages paid to inmate 
workers and the effect that such wage rates 
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have on willingness of business entities to par-
ticipate; 
(H) any complaints filed regarding the dis-
placement of noninmate workers or of inmate 
workers being paid less than required wages 
and the disposition of those complaints; 
(I) any sanctions recommended relating to 
displacement of noninmate workers or payment 
of less than the required wages, and the dis-
position of such proposed sanctions; 
(J) the extent to which the new authority 
provided additional inmate work opportunities 
assisting the Bureau of Prisons in attaining its 
objective of providing 25 percent of the work- 
eligible inmates with work opportunities within 
Federal Prison Industries; 
(K) measures of any adverse impacts of 
implementation of the new authority on busi-
ness concerns using noninmate workers that are 
engaged in providing similar types of products 
and services in direct competition; and 
(L) a compilation of data relating work op-
portunities for Federal inmates with work as-
signments with Federal Prison Industries pro-
vided by— 
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(i) sales to Federal agencies pursuant 
to the status of Federal Prison Industries 
as a mandatory source of supply during 
the period fiscal year 1990 through fiscal 
year 2007; 
(ii) sales to Federal agencies of serv-
ices, both through non-competitive inter-
agency transfers and as a result of direct 
competition from private-sector offerors 
during the period fiscal year 1990 though 
fiscal year 2007; 
(iii) performance as a subcontrator to 
a Federal prime contractor or Federal sub-
contractor at a higher tier beginning in fis-
cal year 1990; 
(iv) introduction of inmate-furnished 
services into the commercial market, begin-
ning in the second quarter of fiscal year 
1998; 
(v) alternative inmate work opportuni-
ties, beginning in fiscal year 2007, pro-
vided by agreements with— 
(I) non-profit organizations, pur-
suant to section 4124a(b)(1) of title 
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18, United States Code, as added by 
section 10(b), and section 10(c); 
(II) religious organizations, pur-
suant to section 4124a(b)(2) of title 
18, United States Code; 
(III) units of local governments, 
school districts, or other special pur-
pose districts, pursuant to section 
4124a(b)(3) of title 18, United States 
Code; 
(IV) 
work-based 
Employment 
Preparation Programs for Federal in-
mates, pursuant to section 4124b of 
title 18, United States Code, as added 
by section 11; or 
(V) other means. 
(3) OPPORTUNITY
FOR
PUBLIC
COMMENT.— 
The Comptroller General shall provide an oppor-
tunity for public comment on the proposed scope 
and methodology for the assessment required by 
paragraph (1), making such modifications in re-
sponse to such comments as he deems appropriate. 
(4) REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller Gen-
eral shall submit to the Congress in accordance 
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