Sec. 5. Recidivism reduction program and productive activity recommendations
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The Attorney General shall— review the effectiveness of recidivism reduction programs and productive activities, including prison jobs, that exist as of the date of the enactment of this Act in facilities operated by the Bureau of Prisons; review available information regarding the effectiveness of recidivism reduction programs and productive activities, including prison jobs, that exist in State-operated prisons throughout the United States, provided that the Attorney General shall make no rule or regulation requiring any State government to provide information for, or participate in, such review; conduct or fund research to evaluate established programs offered through organizations that do not rely on Federal funding in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of such programs in reducing recidivism; identify the most effective recidivism reduction programs that are evidence-based; survey all Federal agencies to determine which products purchased by the agencies could be manufactured by prisoners participating in a prison work program without reducing job opportunities for workers in the United States who are not in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons; and make recommendations to the Bureau of Prisons regarding— replication of the most effective recidivism reduction programs that are evidence-based; the expansion of effective, evidence-based recidivism reduction programming capacity; the expansion of productive activities, including prison jobs; and the addition of any new effective programs and activities that the Attorney General finds, using the methods described in section 3(c), would help to reduce recidivism.