1. BOOSTING PROFITS & REDUCING COSTS:
THE VALUE PROPOSITION OF PRISON INDUSTRIES
FOR PRIVATE SECTOR MANUFACTURERS
& SERVICE PROVIDERS
202.455.6350

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Contents
• Who We Are
• Important Definitions
• What We Do
• Where We Are
• What You Provide
• Financial Benefits
• Why USA and Not Off-Shore
• Facilities Currently Available
• History of Prison Industries
• Key Contacts

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Who We Are
• Billiken Group is an international professional services firm
established in 2010. One of our goals is to develop employment
programs for correctional industries agencies.
• We identify business opportunities that are mutually beneficial to
private sector employers and prison industries agencies.
• Our leadership team has managed successful prison workforce
programs as well as international private sector companies.

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Important Definitions
Prison Industry: “any activity that rewards inmates with pay,
privileges, or other benefits to create a product or service that has
value for a public or private client” George E. Sexton, Rod
Miller, and Victor J. Jacobsen. Operating Jail Industries: A
Resource Manual.

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What We Do
• We handle all the logistics of establishing a manufacturing or service
program.
• Identifying factory locations.
• Negotiating rates and fees.
• Overseeing the build-out, tooling and factory production.
• Conducting quality inspections.
• And more.

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What We Do
• We reduce your company’s labor and overhead expense.
• We provide you with a choice
• Total control to manage the operation
• Let us manage the entire operation for you.
• We provide total operational support through activation.
• We can ship finished products to your customers from our US
warehouse.

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Where We Are
• Billiken Group operates with a network of facilities in all 50 states.
• This network of manufacturing facilities provides unsurpassed
distribution and transportation advantages and savings to our clients.

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What You Provide
• Management and basic items to support production of your products.
• Equipment, tooling, fixtures and work instructions.
• Raw material suppliers and working capital.
• Technical support.

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Financial Benefits
• Billiken Group provides our clients with a single hourly loaded labor
rate per inmate that is all-Inclusive for labor, facilities, and utilities.
• No Healthcare Cost
• No Cap and Trade
• No Workers Comp (services only)
• No Building Insurance
• No HR Department Expense
• No Maintenance (Building)
• No Rent / Lease / Utilities Cost
• No Sick / Vacation Cost

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Financial Benefits
• 24/7 Armed Security at no cost.
• Up to 5 Years Fixed Labor Rate (service only).
• An average of 300 potential employees on the waiting list at each
location
• Easy ramp up and ramp down during seasonal work.
• Long term employees.

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Why USA and Not Off-Shore
• The costs of doing business off-shore continues to rise with
increasing labor costs and other factors.
• Skyrocketing freight costs from the rising costs of oil.
• Our US locations provides a significant logistic advantage for high
labor content manufacturing and services.

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Sample List of Facilities
• 30,000 SF facility
• 30,000 SF Facility
• 29,000 SF Facility
• 4,146 SF Facility
• 22,000 SF Facility with a 14,000 SF warehouse
• 8,545 SF Facility with a 3,212 SF Inside Dock Area
• 12,000 SF facility
• We have alliance partners with over 120 facilities nationwide that can be
available based on the number of inmates employed.

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History of Prison Industries
• Prison Industry was created during the Industrial Era (1890-1935)
• Based on the ideology of strong principles and rehabilitation
• Indeterminate Sentencing
• Parole
• Trade Training
• Education
• Primary Reformation over Punishment

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History of Prison Industries
The six systems of inmate labor used in the twentieth century:
• Contract system – Private business paid to use inmate labor. They
provided raw materials and supervised the manufacturing process
inside prison facilities.
• Piece-price system – Goods were produced for private businesses
under the supervision of prison authorities. Prisons were paid
according to the number and quality of the goods manufactured.
• Lease system – Prisoners were taken to work sites under the
supervision of armed guards. The private contractor employed them
and maintained discipline.

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History of Prison Industries
The six systems of inmate labor used in the twentieth century:
• Public-account system – this system eliminated the use of private
contractors. Industries were entirely prison owned, and prison
authorities managed the manufacturing process. Goods were sold on
the free market.
• Public-works system – Prisoners maintained roads and highways,
cleaned public parks and recreational facilities. They also maintained
and restored public buildings.
• State-use system – Prisoners manufactured only goods that could be
used by other state offices, or they provided labor to assist other state
agencies.

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Today’s Reality
• Prisons are overcrowded due to lack of funding to build new prisons.
• We now have more people in prison per capita than any other country
in the world.
• Over 2 million people are behind bars.
• Cost of incarceration per offender averages $30,000 annually.
• Cost to build each cell averages $60,000.

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Today’s Reality
• 50% of the State DOC inmates who will be released this year are
likely to recidivate within 3 years.
• 50% of men and women committed to DOC have not earned a
diploma or GED.
• The average reading level at intake is between 6th-8th grade.
• Inmates drop out of public school because they were convicted of a
crime, had academic or behavioral problems, or lost interest.

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Think About This
Because 95% of offenders incarcerated in correctional
facilities will eventually be released and living in our
communities, with our families, children, friends and
coworkers...
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Purpose of Prison Industries
Prison industries represent our one chance to instill responsibility,
discipline, and a sense of accomplishment in those who need it most.

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Mission of Prison Industries
Rehabilitative programs providing:
• Specific work programs.
• Structured training and employment.
• Instilling transferable job skills.
• A positive work ethic

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Prison Industries Represent
• 50 States (includes Federal prison systems and local jail jurisdictions)
• Annual Sales of $2.4 billion.
• Encompass a total of 97 business units.
• Employ 91,043 of inmates.
• Products
• Services
• Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) program
• Reentry Services

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Products
Furniture
Garments Upholstery
Electronic
Metal Products Signage
Assembly
Cable Office Panel
Mattresses Assembly / License Plates
Systems
Wire Harness

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Services
Refurbishing /
Remanufacturing
Bindery Pick and Pack
Order
Call Centers Data Entry
Fulfillment
Contract Labor Digitizing GIS / CADD Recycling

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Benefits of Prison Industries
• An effective management tool for reducing inmate idleness, thus
maintaining a safe and secure work environment for both staff and
inmates
• Provides inmate training with less supervision and at a lower cost
than alternative programs

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Benefits of Prison Industries
• Generate revenue dollars by investing back into the community
through the purchase of raw materials, supplies, equipment and
services from the private sector.
• It is believed that the U.S. economy is strengthened by the
participation of all able-bodied citizens, including inmates

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Benefits of Prison Industries
• Operate as self-sustaining programs with little or no cost to taxpayers.
• Provide a means for inmates to reimburse some of the costs of their
incarceration.
• Lower recidivism rates when compared to the general prison
population.

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Benefits of Prison Industries
Satisfy society’s mandate that inmates be put to work to pay back their
debt to society by earning wages to pay fines, court costs and victims’
restitution, and by sending money home to support their own families,
rather than possibly relying on public assistance.

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Who Wins With Prison Industries
• Society and our Communities
• Correctional Administrators
• Correctional Staff
• Offenders and their Families
• Local Business

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Think About This
• This year, 800,000 inmates will be released from prison back into
society.
• If they can’t find work, or a home, or help, they are much more likely to commit
crime and return to prison
• America is the land of second chance
• When the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life
• Billiken Group provides that second chance

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Key Contacts
Allan R. Lamberti Carlos R. Cunha
Founder & CEO Executive Director
Allan@BillikenGroup.com Carlos@BilllikenGroup.com
203.537.9900 703.965.8848

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Acknowledgements
Background information provided by the National Correctional
Industries Association: www.nationalcia.org
The NCIA is an international nonprofit professional association
whose members represent all 50 state correctional industry
agencies, Federal Prison Industries, foreign correctional industry
agencies and city/county jail industry programs.