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Psychology pre‐doctoral internships provide high quality training experiences forclinical and counseling
psychologygraduatestudents.Inturn,theagencybenefitsbybeingabletorecruituniquelyqualified,well‐trained
early career correctional psychologists for future employment. Approximately 44% ofcurrent BOP psychologists
completed their doctoral training in a BOP
internship program. Based on the success at existing locations, new
internship programs were activated at FCI Terminal Island (CA), FCC Terre Haute (IN), and USP Hazelton/FCI
Morgantown(WV),foratotalof12programs.
Inmate Skills Development (ISD):
TheNational
Reentry Affairs Branch (NRAB), formerly the Inmate
Skills Development Branch, coordinates the BOP’s
reentry and skills development initiatives and serves
astheagency’spointofcontactforpartners.InFY10,
NRAB provided training and technical assistance to
representatives of the U.S. Sentencing Commission,
U.S. Parole Commission, Offices of Probation
and
PretrialServices(OPPS),homelessveteransprograms,
residentialreentrycenters,correctionalagencies, and
other community and government agencies. NRAB
conducted Offender Workforce Development (OWD) training in partnership with the National Institute of
Corrections(NIC),OPPS,statedepartmentsofcorrections,andcommunitypartners.
AchievementsinsupportoftheISDinclude:
Creationoffull‐timeReentryAffairsCoordinatorpositionsforallinstitutionsandregionaloffices;
Development of a Memorandum of Understanding between MDC Guaynabo (PR) and Puerto Rico’s
AdministrationfortheSustenanceofMinors(ASUME)toimprovecollaborationbetweentheBOPandtheOf‐
ficeofChildSupportServicesinPuerto
Rico;
Completion of Offender Employment Specialist (OES) training by most facilities with their local reentry
partners;and
OngoingimprovementstotheISDStoenhancemonitoring, automatedinformationsharing,andcompliance
withpolicyandlegislativerequirements.
FederalPrisonIndustries(FPI):
CommonlyknownbyitstradenameUNICOR,FPIisone of theBOP’scorecorrectionalprograms.SanfordBates,
thefirstBOPDirectorandlongest‐servingmemberofFPI’sBoardofDirectors,recognizedFPI’simportancefrom
the outset. He stated: “Prisoners should work because it is economically necessary, socially advisable, and
because
itrepresentsthemostimportantelementinthegeneralattempttosolvetheproblemofdelinquency.”
ThisyearFPIwassubstantiallynegativelyaffectedbythesloweconomy,increasedcostofrawmaterialsandstaff
salaries,legislation,andchangingdemandforspecificwar‐relateditemsbythe military.InFY10,itwasnecessary
to take additional cost reduction measures (factory closures, downsizing of operations, and staff reductions)
at
selectsitestostemthenegativeearnings.
At FY‐end, FPI operated 94 factories at 70 sites, compared to 101 factories at the end of FY09.FPI went from
employing 23,152 inmatesat the beginning ofFY08 to 15,907 onSeptember30, 2010– asignificant decreasein
inmateworkers.
UNICORactivitiesattwofactoriesareparticularlynoteworthy:
InmateProgramsandServices
Prisons affect recidivism by helping inmates acquire the
skillsneededtolivecrime‐
reeaftertheirreleasetosociety.
Research confi rms inmate programs can be effective in
reducing recidivism. And effe ctive Inmate
rograms can
yield cost avoidance from reduced arrests, convictions,
incarceration, and supervision, as well as from lowered
incidents of victimization. Depending on BOP program
type,savingscanrangefrom$3.87to$7.13foreverydollar
spent(WashingtonStateInstituteforPublicPolicy,2001).