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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 645- -JUNE 25, 1948 § 4086. TEMPORARY SAFE-KEEPING OF FEDERAL OFFENDERS BY MARSHALS United States marshals shall provide for the safe-keeping of any person arrested, or held under authority of any enactment of Congress pending commitment to an institution. HAPTER 307.- -E MPLOYMENT Sec. 4121. Federal Prison Industries; board of directors. 4122. Administration of Federal Prison Industries. 4123. New industries. 4124. Purchase of prison-made products by Federal departments. 4125. Public works; prison camps. 4126. Prison Industries fund; use and settlement of accounts. 4127. Prison Industries report to Congress. 4128. Enforcement by Attorney General. § 4121. FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES; BOARD OF DIRECrORS "Federal Prison Industries", a government corporation of the Dis- trict of Columbia, shall be administered by a board of five directors, appointed by the President to serve at the will of the President without compensation. The directors shall be representatives of (1) industry, (2) labor, (3) agriculture, (4) retailers and consumers, and (5) the Attorney General, respectively. § 4122. ADMINISTRATION OF FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES Federal Prison Industries shall determine in what manner and to what extent industrial operations shall be carried on in Federal penal and correctional institutions for the production of commodities for consumption in such institutions or for sale to the departments or agencies of the United States, but not for sale to the public in com- petition with private enterprise. Its board of directors shall provide employment for all physically fit inmates in the United States penal and correctional institutions, diversify, so far as practicable, prison industrial operations and so operate the prison shops that no single private industry shall be forced to bear an undue burden of competition from the products of the prison workshops, and to reduce to a minimum competition with private industry or free labor. § 4123. NEw INDUSTRIES Any industry established under this chapter shall be so operated as not to curtail the production of any existing arsenal, navy yard, or other Government workshop. Such forms of employment shall be provided as will give the inmates of all Federal penal and correctional institutions a maximum oppor- tunity to acquire a knowledge and skill in trades and occupations which will provide them with a means of earning a livelihood upon release. The industries may be either within the precincts of any penal or correctional institution or in any convenient locality where an existing property may be obtained by lease, purchase, or otherwise. § 4124. PURCHASE OF PRISON-MADE PRODUCTs BY FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS The several Federal departments and agencies and all other Govern- ment institutions of the United States shall purchase at not to exceed current market prices, such products of the industries authorized by this chapter as meet their requirements and may be available. Disputes as to the price, quality, character, or suitability of such products shall be arbitrated by a board consisting of the Comptroller General of the United States, the Director of the Bureau of Federal Location of indus- tries. Arbitration o dis- putes.

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