Prison-Made Goods Act

The act governs the manufacture and sale of goods and services produced by inmate labor under a state correctional industries program, addressing how articles are specified, priced, catalogued, and made available to purchasers. Its central mechanism is a state-use purchasing requirement: state offices, agencies, and institutions must buy qualifying articles from the correctional industries program rather than from outside vendors, subject to enumerated exceptions, while political subdivisions and certain volunteer fire and rescue organizations are also permitted to purchase. It further restricts open-market sale of prisoner-made articles, establishes an industrial revolving fund that receives sale proceeds and finances operations, and imposes reporting, audit, rulemaking, and advance public-notice obligations on the corrections agency — including before it commits funds to a line of manufacturing it has not previously entered.

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