This appropriation will provide for the custody and care of an average of 25,000 prisoners and the maintenance and operation of 32 institutions and the central office. An average of 5,410 employees will be employed with the funds in this appropriation. The medical care of prisoners is provided by the U.S. Public Health Service. 1. Custody, care, and treatment of prisoners in Federal institutions. This activity covers the direct care costs. of all prisoners in the Federal Prison System. These include the costs, of all food, clothing, education, custodial requirements, welfare services, release transportation, and related personal services. The funds required, exclusive of salary costs, are in direct relation to the estimated 25,000 prisoners expected to be maintained in 1964, at an estimated cost per man per day of $0.84. The average daily population for 1962 was 23,838 as compared to 23,378 in 1961. 2. Maintenance and operation of institutions.-This activity includes administrative expenses, all utility services, operation of motor vehicles, the repair and maintenance of all buildings and facilities, and equipment replacements. The cost of personal services attributable to these activities is also included. 3. Medical services.-Funds are allocated to the Public Health Service for the cost of medical, psychiatric, and technical services. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 25 Other services__. 424 425 425 26 Supplies and materials. 31 Equipment... 41 Grants, subsidies, and contributions.. 42 Insurance claims and indemnities.. BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES For constructing, remodeling, and equipping necessary buildings and facilities at existing penal and correctional institutions, and for planning[] and site acquisition for a new western women's institution, and a replacement institution for the National Training School, and [commencing] for completing construction of a new psychiatric institution, including all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or force account, [$3,545,000] $17,775,000: Provided, That labor of United States prisoners may be used for work performed under this appropriation. (Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1963.) 1. Construction.-The appropriation requested will provide funds for constructing a psychiatric institution, site acquisition and planning for a replacement for the National Training School, and preliminary planning for a new women's institution. Facilities will also be added at the Sandstone and Marion institutions. institutions. Funds previously appropriated for the rehabilitation of Alcatraz will be used to strengthen the institutions to which Alcatraz inmates will be transferred. 2. Repairs and improvements.-The funds requested will aid in the reduction of a large backlog of needs. A substantial part of the work will be performed by inmate labor. 1961 ments 1962 24 1963 1964 24 24 24 8,556 -297 3,609 940 6,621 8, 580 -297 3,633 964 6,645 Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) Under existing legislation, 1963.-It is anticipated that a supplemental appropriation will be needed to meet estimated costs in excess of currently available funds for the care of Federal prisoners in non-Federal institutions. Intragovernmental funds: FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED The following corporation is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to such corporation, and in accord with the law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the program set forth in the budget for the fiscal year [1963】 1964 for such corporation including purchase (not to exceed ten) and hire of passenger motor vehicles, except as hereinafter provided: 1962 actual 1963 1964 estimate estimate Capital outlay: Il Personnel compensation: Positions other Buildings and improvements.. Machinery and equipment....... 12 Personnel benefits.. than permanent... 25 Other services.... 26 Supplies and materials.. ties; and to operate a placement service to assist released inmates to secure jobs. Earnings from the sale of these products pay expenses of the corporation and have permitted payment of $47 million in dividends into the Treasury since January 1, 1935. It is anticipated that dividends of $4 million and $3.5 million will be paid in 1963. and 1964, respectively. Budget program.-During 1962 the corporation operated. 53 shops and factories at 23 locations. The laundry at New York, N.Y. was discontinued during 1962. During 1964 a new enterprise will start operations at the maximum security institution at Marion, Ill., bringing the total shops and factories to 55 at 24 locations. The following table indicates the scope of employment and training effort in the total prison program: -3,880 Number of inmates assisted in job place ment.... -4,000 Unobligated balance carried forward (−). -4,000 -3.500 -13,054 -13,558 -13,514 Number of shops and factories.. The trend of expenditures for capital improvements is reflected in the following summary (in thousands of dollars): CAPITAL EXPENDITURES California, Terminal Island. 150 100 375 Total capital expenditures..... Applicable receipts..... Budget expenditures............. -4,302 -4,680 -3.456 This is a wholly owned Government corporation. A board of six directors appointed by the President controls its policies. Supervision is by the Director of the Bureau of Prisons who has jurisdiction over all industrial enterprises and vocational training programs in all Federal penal and correctional institutions. Products manufactured by inmates are sold only to the penal institutions and to other Government agencies. Earnings, in excess of operating requirements, are paid as dividends into the U.S. Treasury. The corporation is authorized, under the Attorney General, to establish and operate industries in Federal penal and correctional institutions and disciplinary barracks (18 U.S.C. 4121-4128). Its objectives are to provide employment for physically fit inmates; to provide maximum vocational training for qualified inmates in connection with regular institutional and industrial activi 1,938 3.053 2,243 2,363 Operating results.--The corporation has always operated at a profit and is expected to continue to do so. Earnings of the fund pay expenses of the corporation, which include general administration and vocational rehabilitation. These two activities, although financed from fund receipts, are subject to annual appropriation limitations. Earnings in excess of operating requirements are paid into the U.S. Treasury. As of June 30, 1962, the cumulative earnings amounted to $73.7 million, of which $26.7 million had been retained as working capital and $47 million had been paid into the Treasury. Earnings are estimated to be $5.7 million in 1963 and $4.7 million in 1964. Revenue, Expense, and Retained Earnings (in thousands of dollars) Object Classification (in thousands of dollars)—Continued 1962 1963 1964 actual estimate estimate 1962 actual 1963 estimate estimate 1964 LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING EXPENSES, FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED Not to exceed [$575,000] $662,000 of the funds of the corporation shall be available for its administrative expenses, and not to exceed [$1,135,000] $1,474,000 for the expenses of vocational training of prisoners, both amounts to be available for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), and to be computed on an accrual basis and to be determined in accordance with the corporation's prescribed accounting system in effect on July 1, 1946, and shall be exclusive of depreciation, payment of claims, expenditures which the said accounting system requires to be capitalized or charged to cost of commodities acquired or produced, including selling and shipping expenses, and expenses in connection with acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of facilities and other property belonging to the corporation or in which it has an interest. (18 U.S.C. 4121-4128; Reorganization Plan No. II, pt. 1, sec. 3a, approved Apr. 3, 1939; Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1963.) Program by activities: 1. General administration (excludes depreciation).. 1962 actual 1963 1964 estimate estimate 2. Vocational training (excludes depreciation). |