Identifying Beneficiaries of PIE Inmate Incomes: Who Benefits from Wage Earnings of Inmates Working in the Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) Program?
Publication year:
2003
| Cataloged on:
Sep. 18, 2007
ANNOTATION: Major financial beneficiaries of Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) inmate incomes and the dollar amount of these benefits are determined. Eight sections follow an executive summary: introduction; research design; income, PIE, and deductions defined; deductions and beneficiaries elaborated; research results for PIE wages and beneficiaries; estimating benefits if PIE participation were widespread; disposition of the PIE residual; and recommendations for further research - "Taken together, others, not the inmate, are the primary beneficiaries of contemporary PIE incomes. An estimated 53 to 57 cents of every dollar earned by PIE inmates goes to non-inmate recipients via PIE deductions" (p. xii).