Offender Employment and Training Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Offender Employment and Training Act - Title I: Federal Penal or Correctional Institutions - Authorizes the Federal Prison Industries to make grants and loans to applicants for developing projects for the training or employing of offenders. Specifies the interest rate on such loans. Authorizes the Federal Prison Industries to acquire facilities which may be utilized in connection with any such project, and to make such facilities available, by lease or other agreement, to any qualified applicant. Provides that no loan or grant shall be made unless (1) any offender employed in connection with any project shall receive wages at a rate not less that that paid for work of a similar nature; (2) any product or service resulting from such project may be sold or otherwise disposed of in the same manner as other products; (3) offenders involved in such project are likely to find employment following release; (4) offenders shall not be deprived of the right to participate in benefits available to other individuals on the basis of their employment; and (5) the wages of any offender shall be subject to all applicable Federal and State laws and regulations. Establishes in the Treasury of the Un…